Behind the Iran Curtain 

The civilized world may finally be starting to catch on that the Islamic Republic of Iran is every bit as evil and oppressive as the other regimes that have come after the Jews down through the millennia.

But we are cautioned that, unlike Pharaoh, Titus, and Hitler did, the mullahs in Tehran do not enjoy the support of their populace in their obsession to destroy the State of Israel. If anything, we are told, the leaders are more frightened of their people than they are of the Jews. And the Iranian people, we are told, hate their rulers far more than they hate us.

Is that true? If so, where is the popular uprising to overthrow the ayatollahs? And if there were one, who would take over?

It is notoriously difficult to get accurate information out of the Shia dictatorship, and even more so in wartime. I made the rounds in Washington, D.C., of various Iranian expat organizations opposed to the mullahs to try to get a read on the situation. They can hardly be described as impartial observers — many of them, or their parents, had to flee Iran because they resisted the regime’s rule. Also, some of them have been out of immediate touch with local sentiment in Iran for years — even decades.