Simple equation: the more we pursue policies that strengthen hard-liners, the more they will disconnect the masses from the outside world and thus the less our influence over Iran's evolution.POST: Iran limits ADSL bandwidth
ARTICLE: Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence, Robert Tait, The Guardian, October 18, 2006
The rule: soft-kill authoritarianism with connectivity, but hard-kill totalitarianism with regime change--however achieved.
Thanks to Terry Collier and Jacob Heim for sending this in.