Iranian Protests: Desperately Seeking Yeltsin

I have been watching intently, along with the rest of the world, as Iranians rise up - sometimes strongly, sometimes sporadically - to demand fair elections. I am thrown back to those days, back before Mich and I were married, when the Balkins were breaking off from the Soviet Union.

Charles Krauthammer (Desperately seeking Yeltsin) offers insight into just what the Iranian movements needs and just how it may transform into something lasting. 

Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets. They need a leader like Boris Yeltsin: a former establishment figure with newly revolutionary credentials and legitimacy, who stands on a tank and gives the opposition direction by calling for the unthinkable - the abolition of the old political order.