Greg Sheridan makes an excellent point about where are all the protesters in support of Iran’s democracy movement?:

THE missing actor in the tragic and gruesome story of Iran since the stolen election of June 12 has been the Western human rights lobby. Where is it?

I can help Mr. Sheridan out with this question, the western human rights lobby is hiding out in the same area as they have for decades in regards to the human rights violations committed by the North Korean regime.  Anyway Sheridan goes on to answer his own question on why the western human rights lobby could care less about Iran or North Korea:

Apart from ethnic Iranians, there has hardly been a single demonstration in any Western capital in support of the Iranian democrats.

Yet isn’t there a class, in Australia and in the rest of the West, of people deeply concerned about human rights? The class that Robert Manne and Judith Brett call the moral middle class? Weren’t there thousands of demonstrators against the World Trade Organisation and G20 meetings in Australia because the global economy allegedly repressed the rights of poor people?

What about the groups explicitly dedicated to human rights? …

The truth is the language and practice of human rights advocacy in the West has become completely corrupted by the postmodern ideologies of the contemporary Left. In this parallel universe all crimes are a subset of imperialism and the only true villains are the US, Israel and, for us, Australia…  [The Australian via Andrew Bolt]

Sheridan hits the nail on the head with his last statement; Iran and North Korea both are of no concern to the western human rights lobby because the villians are not the US or Israel.