ONLY BIRTH PANGS. The last time I pointed out that Iran’s evil dictators were offering sound criticism of U.S. foreign policy, The Weekly Standard took me to task, but still when you’re right, you’re right. Ali Khamenei says: “The U.S. is following a policy of creating insecurity, crisis, and war in the region. It must know that the more it expands insecurity, the more it will arouse the anger of nations against it and make the world insecure for itself.” This is true, is it not? The theory that Iran stands “alongside all oppressed nations” seems less plausible.

–Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias is a senior editor at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a former Prospect staff writer, and the author of Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats. Follow @mattyglesias