Why can't the unmentionable country just mind its own business?
Alright, prove to me that the sanctions are directly linked with the Iranian student protests.
The thing is, we really don't know what's going on in Iran. We have people( government officials activist bloggers, Podus) speaking like they know Iran like the back of their collective hand, but the fact is they don't. Obama's advisors are as distant as we are from the issue. The activist bloggers inside Iran are mainly bourgois and can't speak for the rural poor.
Ufortunatley this complete and utter lack of solid information has not stopped us from grabbing hold of the few scraps of info we do have and tearing each other to shreds over a ton of speculation.