American meddling in Iran would only make things worse

Iran doesn't need American help, especially from neocon warmongers

Iranian pro-government demonstrators.
(Image credit: ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)

Iran has been rocked by protests — now is it to be rocked by American bombs?

Anti-Iran warmongers — especially the neoconservatives at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies — have seized on the recent spree of protests in the Islamic Republic to demand that the U.S. "support" the protesters, getting op-eds published in the The New York Times, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.