The author did not say he believed the sanctions were unjust; quite to the contrary, his statement was, "Most Iranian climbers are middle class and well-educated, and despite a general feeling that current sanctions are unjust, appeared incredibly open and friendly to foreigners." Based off this statement, one can assume that he meant the people living under this "ABUSIVE, REPRESSIVE regime" were complaining about the sanctions, not the regime (WE, Iranians complain about our regime in OUR own time). Now for this to get personal: from the perspective of someone who was born in Iran, raised in Iran for half of his life, and has made many trips back (and still has family there who are currently complaining mainly about THE SANCTIONS), I can tell you with complete certainty that the sanctions do more harm than good, even for the long-term good and security of the "world". If you want to take a country with probably the largest educated middle class of any in the Middle East, and destroy those people's livelihood, sanctions (resulting in a 75% loss of value in the country's currency) are the way to go. If, on the other hand, you want the government of that country to change, from the inside, at the hands of this middle class, then THE ENTIRE WORLD should ignore the country and the government's pleas for attention, and let the protesters of the summer of 2009 figure things out, while they still have food to put in their stomachs. You might have good intentions, but your kind are what is giving this government food for propaganda to feed to the lower class. So, please, sit down and shut up on topics you cannot even begin to fathom (even better, just go climb; leave the politics to the rest of the idiots). Thanks in advance.