9 Questions with Gen. Wesley Clark
Is the Opposition Fading?
12.16.09, 02:30 PM CST
RCW: In the eyes of many analysts, the Iranian opposition seems to be fading. On Friday, Charles Krauthammer wrote, "Right now the Iranian revolution has no leader. As this is written, opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi has not appeared in public since June 18. And the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime has shown the requisite efficiency and ruthlessness at suppressing widespread unrest. Their brutality has been deployed intelligently."

Do you agree, that at least in the short term, that the opposition seems to be fading?
Gen. Clark: Well let's put it this way. The public signs of the opposition have faded. That doesn't necessarily mean the opposition has faded. It just means or it may mean that they are regrouping, they are ducking down to reduce their prominence to preserve their capacity to organize and form and act later. We just don't know.