President Obama’s decision to avoid direct criticism of the clerical junta in Iran during its brutal crackdown on legitimate dissent after the military coup disguised as an election is a grave mistake. In fact, whether or not the US “meddles” in Iranian politics, the Ahmadinejad junta is already accusing the US and Western European leaders of “meddling” as our self-absorbed President succinctly prevaricated a sense of “concern” about Iranian civilians being beaten, slashed, shot and killed on the streets of Iran or tortured and summarily executed at Iran’s notorious Evin prison.