President Barack Obama clearly believes he can have it both ways when it comes to Iran, offering tepid support for the protest movement and shedding crocodile tears for the death of innocents, while keeping his hand stretched out longingly to the embattled Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A key Iranian dissident tells Newsmax he was stunned when he heard President Barack Obama tell reporters that, despite government's brutal crackdown in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has time to regain “legitimacy” in the eyes of the Iranian people.

More than 1.5 million protesters took to the streets of Tehran on Monday, marking the largest anti-regime demonstration Iran has seen since the final days of the shah in early 1979.