1. The unconditional release of every individual arrested and imprisoned for having objected to the results of the elections.

2. Ordering the cessation of Basij and police violence toward protestors.

3. Declaring the election void.

4. Ordering new elections under the auspices of international organizations.

5. Paying compensation to the injured and to the families of those who have been killed.

Calm could perhaps be brought back to the Iranian society if these conditions are met. Otherwise, there is a great possibility of increased violence in Iran.

Or, in other words: victory for the opposition.

Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, said she has no complaints about Obama’s rhetoric. “What happens in Iran regards the people themselves, and it is up to them to make their voices heard,” she said in a telephone interview from Geneva. “I respect his comments on all the events in Iran, but I think it is sufficient.”

Ebadi is one of the leading voices against the regime. She’s been persecuted by it for years, and has courageously used the platform bequeathed by her Nobel laureate-ship to call attention to its abuses. If she’s telling the United States that Obama is striking the right tone on the unfolding Iranian uprising, perhaps it’s time for ignorant columnists to stop calling Obama “objectively” on the side of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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