They want greater social freedom, a free press, freedom to question the religious leadership, and a piece of the economic pie, which is tightly controlled by the clerics and their allies. Because most of the world's one billion Muslims follow the Sunni branch of Islam, Iran is even more isolated from other Muslims. But all the while Iran has been busy striving to acquire missiles and nuclear weapons.
Barber does see cause for cautious optimism in the desire of the Iranian people for greater freedom.
F.R. Duplantier is the director of the American Policy Foundation a nonprofit educational organization promoting free enterprise and constitutional government. All rights reserved.