This is pretty tone deaf - even for our Secretary of State. Lamenting the idea that Iran used to be a a society with fair elections and different points of view exchanged in the leadership when Ayatollah Khomeini was Supreme Leader is just plain batty, as Abe Greenwald at Commentary points out:The following is not hyperbole: the U.S. secretary of state has praised the freedom and pluralism of Iran's Khomeinist revolution. In a lamentation for the passing of the good ol' days, Hillary Clinton told an audience in Doha, Qatar, that today's Iran is "a far cry from the Islamic republic that had elections and different points of view within the leadership circle."However, it's what this praise is offered in service of that's most reprehensible: the reassertion of centralized power by Tehran's autocratic clerics and politicians. Clinton has determined that a Revolutionary Guard coup is underway, and she urged the government to "take back the authority which they should be...(Read Full Post)