Useful insights on the Iranian nuclear problem

OpinionJournal - From WSJ.com:
"Mr. [Mehdi] Khalaji [an Iranian journalist based at a Washington think tank] also urges the U.S. government to recast the content of its Farsi-language radio station, known as Radio Farda. The station's programmers, he says, 'misunderstand the young generation of Iran, which is very political. The quality is not appropriate for a serious audience. The news isn't professional the way the BBC is.' Offering a serious journalistic alternative to the Beeb ought to be an administration priority."

This is, in some ways the most striking of the suggestions in Bret Stephens' commentary. Note particularly that our opposition in the war for the hearts and minds of young Iranians is not the domestic Iranian media, but the venerable Beeb - the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The trouble with Stephens' suggestions for new approaches to the crisis, what he calls Plan B, is that it consists of generally good ideas that won't have the slightest impact on Iranian policy. The mullahs have no choice but to push this confrontation with the West because they must divert attention of their own people from issues like the fascist organization of the economy which allows politically favored persons and cartels to scam billions from the populace while the government itself teeters on the brink of bankruptcy.