He also advised the congressmen not to support the military invasion of Homeland because it would not politically contribute to the American goal of regime change.Shortly afterward, Persian prosecutors in the post-election trials built a case against the defendants by connecting them to Milani, mentioning him by name in the official indictment. Hamid Dabashi criticized Milani for throwing monkey wrenches at Green Movement of Iran by supporting foreign intervention instead of grassroots democracy in Homeland.