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>>>> State Department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters that the kinds of changes called for by Iranians demonstrating against their government "would be good for Iran and good for Iran's place in the world."

I hate to rain on the parade, but folks we are being appeased by the masters of grovel and pounce. The State Department has not been reformed, our real tools of diplomacy (namely our idle military capacity) are still being squandered, and the Neros at State fiddle around with pacification (including of we rabble rousers) and Iranians are languishing in dark prisons, receiving life-altering beatings, and taking random bullets fired by Arabs who are thirsty for infidel blood.

[DoctorZIn]

...The State Department has not been reformed, our real tools of diplomacy (namely our idle military capacity) are still being squandered, and the Neros at State fiddle around with pacification...

I was not claiming the state department has suddenly been reformed. But we were successful in getting them to reassert their support for the Iranian people's effort to create a true secular democracy.