Iran is engulfed in its third day of street insurrection, as Iranians outraged over the questionable legitimacy of their presidential election battle security forces in streets, squares and alleys. The 30-year old Islamic Republic regime is at a moment of peril, when outside assistance -- even if limited to moral support -- could tip the situation against the mullahs.

So where is President Barack Obama? He has no trouble lecturing democratic Israel on how to run its internal affairs. Yet, our talkative president cannot find his voice to support Iranians risking life and limb to protest their repressive government? Obama, who less than two weeks ago was in Cairo lecturing the world about human rights, is mute in the face of the Islamic Republic's brutality toward its own citizens and attempts to black out media coverage of that brutality? Why does he not employ his fabled Arab street cred to voice America's support for the Iranian people against the brutality of their government?

Obama has no qualms about smilingly shaking the hands of dictators like Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega, yet looks on silently while unarmed Iranians face off against the regime's truncheon-wielding security goons. The President's silence speaks volumes.

Several days ago, Obama proclaimed the Iranian regime had every right to build its nuclear base. Now, he is resolutely silent as that same regime tries to beat down a civic insurrection. What can the mullahs interpret other than American acquiescence in the ambitions of this terrorist-sponsoring regime, or at the very least an unwillingness to oppose them?

I'm starting to wonder if he's miffed the Iranians citizenry is upstaging him by trying  to bring down the mullah-ocracy before The One has had the chance to "dialogue" with it.