Only when Iran is willing to join Egypt, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia as moderate democratic societies will the threat of annihilation be lifted from them. This specifically excludes the Gaza democratic vote as it was not for the right folks.
The eight years of the Afghan War of revenge, the six years of Operation Iraq Liberation, the covering of every millionaire banker's billion dollar bad bets will pale in comparison to the sinking of the 5th Fleet and the closing of the Gulf of Hormuz after Israel or the US shows Iran the true face of civilization.

I had to sign up to post despite my deep misgivings about the National
Forum. What nonsense! America must intervene to support the loser of the national election and unclench Iran's fist around its people'sthroat? Did Iran intervene to support Gore vs. Bush?
Philips' article is extreme fantasy as well. Mousavi is not a popular, or populist "democratic" leader! This is a contest within an Iran (which is far more democratic than Jordan, or KSA, Egypt etc)
but still an Islamic republic and he is not the leader of a democratic "movement" for heaven's sake! His support is from northern Tehran (not his home province) which is like North Tel Aviv! Full of yuppies, and those Iranians who enjoy certain freedoms due to economic advantage, as opposed to southern Tehran, where the support goes to Ahmadinejad. These blogs are not exactly filled with good info. on Iran, folks; there are still strong, populist supports of Ahmadinejad as a folksy, modest, pious, leader and the strong hints of outside support -- whether from the U.S., UK or both, are not favoring the opposition. In any case, it was all about leadership of the existing Islamic system, not a movement designed to replace that Islamic system with a different type of government that the Heritage Foundation or Bush's $73 million in PR and "strategic communications" were fostering in Iran.

The first thing the US must do is get rid if Zbigniew Brzezinski,the current US foreign policy maker.This man sees himself as the Grand Chessmaster of Global politics.He is just as dangerous as Adolph Hitler and has Obama's support.