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During the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei’s Friday Sermon on February 4, 2011, he said, “The events of North Africa have a special meaning for the Iranian nation. This is what has always been known as the occurrence of Islamic awakening as a result of the victory of the Islamic Revolution.”

Some read the exemption as a sign of more violence to come.

Imagine a cabinet meeting in which a Brotherhood minister suggests negating the peace treaty and risking $1.3 billion in US aid.

As Islamic political thought evolves, no easy answers to how events in Egypt will unfold.

Most of us are watching the unfolding events in Egypt with awe and anticipation hoping its citizens will nonviolently supplant a repressive and dictatorial regime with a democracy. Those of us who have physical or emotional ties to Israel see a more complicated picture. Israel is watching the…

Many commentators have assumed that somehow Egypt would follow Iran’s unique trajectory.

Obama has proposed working with like-minded Muslims, through nations and networks, to build partnerships. Though it’s an awkward place for an American president to stand—because it could backfire. The last time we helped develop a network of Muslims who came together for common cause, it got messy; al Qaeda emerged from the bloody aftermath.

But let’s all agree that the mullet’s time has come.

As the Iranian president makes a public show of Islamic virtue, it is instructive to look through the eyes of Iran’s most prominent theologians and dissenters, and to recall what actual compassion looks like.

Iran’s Green Revolt is about freedom and democracy, sure. But it usually has to take form in a particular issue or, as in the case of a growing portion of Iran’s youth, in song. Meet the resistance in the form of the underground music scene.