g in the potential for the sort of transformative change inside Iran that was stifled but, one hopes, not extinguished by the regime's crackdown on the Green Movement three years ago. As for Egypt -- still in the early days of its revolutionary moment, outsiders wield little sway over the direction of its turbule

ing overtime to calculate how it should respond to possible scenarios on the horizon (the fall of the Assad regime, an attack on Iran, a revival of the Green Movement in Iran, an Iranian-Western nuclear agreement, and so on). Hamas and Syria are the most vulnerable members of the Resistance and Deterrence Front

ion and loathsome Middle Eastern regimes. The Iranian government has provided good reason for Americans to loathe it, from its harsh suppression of the Green Movement to the anti-Semitic rants and other outrageous statements of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Unfortunately the belligerent rhetoric in Iran feeds b

ing overtime to calculate how it should respond to possible scenari=s on the horizon (the fall of the Assad regime, an attack on Iran, a revival of the Green Movement in Iran, an Ira=ian-Western nuclear agreement, and so on). Hamas and Syria are=the most vulnerable members of the Resistance and Deterrence Front th