MAN, Was I Wrong About Iran

Thomas Friedman: "The Bush strategy — diplomatic/economic isolation plus high oil prices — has only frozen the regime in power and transformed it from mildly repressive to a KGB state with a nuclear program. So now we face an Iranian regime that is both powerful and paranoid."

Sheema Kalbasi: Man, you are still so WRONG about Iran

Hello! This is the same regime that executed thousands of prisoners based on three simple questions and still stones women to death! Now that's mildly repressiv?! As a matter of fact the arrest of Haleh Esfandiari is a mildly repressive act by the regime! Since when executions of thousands of Iranians is a mild act and Haleh Esfandiari’s arrest is equivalent of a KGB state?