(Wall Street Journal) Amir Taheri - When the Arab uprisings started in Tunisia, there were no more enthusiastic cheerleaders than the Khomeinists in Tehran. But Tehran's cheering has begun to fade as the revolt has spread to Syria, the mullahs' sole Arab ally. From the start, Tehran media have labeled the Syrian uprising "a Zionist plot," the term they used to describe the pro-democracy movement in Iran itself. In 2009, the mullahs claimed that those killed in the streets of Tehran and Tabriz were not peaceful demonstrators but "Zionist and infidel" agents who deserved to die. The Assad clan is using the same vicious vocabulary against freedom lovers in Syria as snipers kill them in the streets of Damascus, Deraa and Douma.
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