There seems to be moments in history when freedom is at stake. Such a moment took place when President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and defied the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall."
And another such moment is taking place on the streets of Tehran and the provinces of Iran today. But sadly many here believe Barack Obama missed his historic opportunity to confront evil and stand for freedom.
We interviewed Menashe Amir here in Israel this week. For decades, Amir -- an Iranian Jew -- has kept in touch with his homeland through a radio program. He hears and knows the pulse of the Iranian people.
Amir says the protesters in the streets looked to the West and especially the U.S. for help but did not find it. This is how he put it:
"In fact, the Iranians are very much expecting the international community and especially the Western countries and mainly the United States to give...better and more...help and to support them.
"They have been very much frustrated from what President Obama [said] on the day that the elections were taking place.
"The United States is paving the road for opening negotiations with Iran. So this is an amazing situation in the international arena -- that no one really and practically wants to help the Iranian people."
In a withering article this week, Ralph Peters was less delicate with the President than Amir:
"SILENCE is complicity. Our President's refusal to take a forthright moral stand on the side of the Iranian freedom marchers is read in Tehran as a blank check for the current regime.
"The fundamentalist junta has begun arresting opposition figures, with regime mouthpieces raising the prospect of the death penalty. Inevitably, there are claims that dissidents have been 'hoarding weapons and explosives.'
"Foreign media reps are under house arrest. Cellphone frequencies are jammed. Students are killed and the killings disavowed. And our President is 'troubled,' but doesn't believe we should 'meddle' in Iran's internal affairs. (Meddling in Israel's domestic affairs is just fine though.) We just turned our backs on freedom. Again."
The events on the streets of Tehran could change the destiny of Iran and the course of history.
Let's hope and pray that our country and President will soon stand on the right side of history and let freedom ring!