The Iranian president, who presides over a regime which is not just at war with the West but has been at war with its own people for three decades, summoned great reserves of moral courage during a visit to Malaysia in order to sound like an ordinary American leftist. He said that

“the next [American] government would need at least 30 years in order to compensate, renovate and innovate the damages done by Mr. Bush.”

The Iranian leader urged Washington to heal its image by “relying on (the) basis of justice, humanitarian acts and respect for human beings.”

The Soviet Union and its client regimes were experts at wielding a florid lexicon of human-rights talk in order to deflect attention from their systematic denial of human rights. The Iranians are becoming well-practiced at something similar.

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