One prominent commentator, Max Boot, took “some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran’s elections,” because Obama would now find it harder to stand in the way of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear installations. Since Iran is the enemy (remember George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”?), it is better to deal with a president who talks and acts like a crazy thug, than with a reasonable-sounding figure who promises reforms.
然而在一场看起来类似作弊的选举程序中，穆萨维被强硬派艾哈迈迪·内贾德击败了。美国的一些新保守主义者对此如释重负。一位卓越的评论家马克思·布特“对伊朗选举的结果略感满意”，因为奥巴马现在将发现阻挡以色列向伊朗的核设施发动袭击更困难了。由于伊朗是敌人（还记得乔治·W·布什的“邪恶轴心论”吗？），与该国一个说话行事类似疯狂暴徒的总统打交道，总比和一位理性健全，承诺改革的总统要好一些。