President Obama recently appeared on the CBS Early Show. During the interview, Harry Smith pressed him about his silence on the protests in Iran. Similar to previous responses, the president said:The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil for those forces inside Iran who would love nothing better than to make this an argument about the United States. That's what they do. That's what we've already seen. We shouldn't be playing into that.This is an interesting theory, but the president's neutrality (which is actually an endorsement of the current regime) has not stopped Iranian leaders from lobbing accusations of Western meddling. This from the LA Times: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi has accused Western nations and media of supporting violent protests in an attempt to create anarchy and split apart the Islamic Republic. The BBC and Voice of America "are the mouthpiece of their government's public diplomacy,"  Qashqavi...(Read Full Post)