What's happening in Iran looks more and more like a civil war.

Since the enormous Dec. 27 protests in Tehran and other cities, the regime has arrested more than a thousand people. It has declared that it will no longer "tolerate" dissent. It has killed the relatives of opposition leaders, jailed thousands of protesters, raped and tortured dissidents, called the protests a foreign plot, and ordered rallies of its own, which brought out hundreds of thousands of people.