The people of Iran have no viable voice in their government's policies and pretentions. Any commentary to the contrary is false and misleading. We are sometimes told of citizen unrest in Iran over that government's actions, but that citizen unrest is small and virtually meaningless. Iran seems more and more like the dictatorships we have seen in Europe in the past. Only today did I read something about the government in Iran taking steps to outlaw certain words that suggest a Western influence, words such as "pizza," for heaven's sake! Make no mistake about it -- the government in Iran is well on its way toward "1984."