Buy One, Get One Free  Published: June 22, 2003  Students in
Iran are rebelling against the Ayatollahs. Is there anything we
can do to help? The truth is we have very few tools to influence
events in Iran, and even if we had more it's not clear we'd know
how to use them. But there is one huge tool we do control that
will certainly have an impact on Iran: It's called Iraq.  Iraq,
like Iran, is a majority Shiite country, with myriad religious
links with Iran. If the Bush team could make a psychological and
political breakthrough with Iraqi Shiites, and be seen as
helping them build a progressive, pluralistic state in Iraq, it
would have a big impact on Iran -- much bigger than anything
America alone could say or do.  No one should have any illusions
that Iran's Islamic theocracy is about to fold tomorrow. Iran's
clerical rulers are tough and ruthless and have a monopoly of
power. But many of their people detest them. And while Iran will
play out by its own logic, there is no question that if the
other big, pred