This Editorial is an adjunct to our special briefing on Iran at Winds of Change.NET, courtesy of Project: Free Iran at ActivistChat.com.

Our overview and assessment of the game being played out in Tehran is as follows: First and foremost, both history and fact prove that there is essentially no difference between the "reformers" and "hardliners", and that this "reformer" creation of the Islamic Republic was intended to give the politically savvy Iranian people hope that their demands for freedom would eventually be answered, and also to mask the true face of the regime and disguise itself as a democracy to the world.

Our theory is that several months ago when the Mullahs realized that the Iranian people were going to overwhelmingly boycott the upcoming elections, which would show to the world the illegitimate nature of the regime, they decided to do something to avert such a situation. What better way to avert such a crisis than to create a pseudo-crisis, which would be used to convince the world that the "hardliners" are the bad guys and the "reformers" are the good guys who are liberal-minded and pro-democracy. Anyone up for a game of "Good Cop – Bad Cop"?

It is likely that the regime had hoped to pull the Iranian people into the streets in support of the "reformers", but that hope hasn't materialized. The Iranian people have shown that they are overwhelmingly uninterested in the same old game and instead await the moment when they can rush into the streets, not in support of the "reformers", but in support of freedom, justice and democracy.

Regardless of what some journalists, politicians and others who have been lobbied by the regime profess as truth, the only truth is that the regime in Iran is far more dangerous and brutal than Saddam Hussein's ever was, and if America plans on winning the "War on Terror", the regime in Iran must fall.