Iran’s Events Today: The Worst Possible Outcome?

RealClearWorld’s Kevin Sullivan has a great roundup of events today in Iran — and he fears today’s events were the worst possible outcome:

In a way, I fear what happened today may be the worst possible outcome. The Iranian government’s brutality has been put on display, but that’s in part due to the lower-than-anticipated turnout in Tehran (judging from secondhand info, sitting at a disadvantage in the United States). Had the crowd been larger, I suspect anyway, that it would have tied the hands of the regime. You can’t shoot at 100,000+ people and expect to get away with it. You can, however, isolate and scatter a few thousand people. These are very brave Iranians, and I shudder to think what might happen to them after today.

He and other sites are also now linking to or embedding a very violent video of the death of a young woman protester (go HERE and look under the 2:37 entry and you’ll see it…it has been removed often from You Tube).

RCP’s Sullivan concludes:

What was it that President Ahmadinejad once called the government in Jerusalem? A “rotting, stinking corpse,” I believe? I can then only imagine what that makes this cabal in Tehran.