Iran and its dissidents.

I'm back in Dunedin, jet-lagged but housed. In Iran though, one woman isn't allowed to be at home, or with the people she loves. She has been imprisoned because she decided her career would have as its foundations honesty and the needy. She was a human rights lawyer. In the Arab World, Iran is one of the few places that would let her learn law, let alone defend it. Iran is also one of the few places in the Arab World where defending the law could end you in prison. She got eleven years: five for undermining national security, five for spreading propaganda against the state and one for being a member of Dr. Ebadi's Centre for Human Rights Defenders. That's right, she's been enjailed for belonging to a human rights organization and moreover for defending the rights of the ones the state doesn't want to defend. Her name is Nasrin Satoudeh and as Dr. Enadi says, she's been emprisoned because "the regime is terrified of human rights lawyers who are not afraid to stand up in court for their clients or to give interviews."
She has also been barred of practising law and she won't be able to travel abroad for twenty years. She has in essence been imprisoned in the borders of her own country, but unable to see her children, to work or to hold beliefs.

Iran is a powerful state in the region, economically. It is powerful also because it is where the Iranian people decided to steal the power the American's had over the region. However its lack of freedoms put it in a tough situation. Many now also believe that Iran has nuclear weapons. This gives them more reasons to bomb the country.
All I can say is that if the Americans end up invading, they'll end up killing many more people than the Islamic regime has and its people won't be freed from rule, but merely handed, or snatched to/by someone else.

A war in Iran won't unveil its nuclear prowess, it will only give the Americans and/or Europeans another fighting ground, which will allow the media to stay well away from the scandals happening within. A war in Iran will not free its people, it will only trap them in a stateless run delimited territory, being bombed every day.

Only the people can stand up again to recapture their power. When that happens Iran will be truly free from itself and from others.