Stalemate, not regime change, likely in Iran

Dan Brumberg, co-director of Georgetown’s MA in Democracy and Governance, predicts a political stalemate for Iran’s Green Movement:

As long as the current Leader remains in power, or as long Khamanei has no close confident who can convince him to drink from the chalice of compromise, the road ahead will be long and difficult. The opposition must prepare for a protracted struggle, one in which non-violent defiance of injustice prompts from within the regime itself the shame and even desperation that points to the logic of conciliation.