So far, this is what things look like in Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei, the cleric who styles himself The Supreme Guide, has chosen that President Ahmadi-nejad should continue in office, and probably made that choice well before the election. Many people in the country are not in favor of this outcome, although it’s impossible to be sure exactly who, where, and how many because the only evidence we have of the fact are tweets and grainy cellphone video.
We also know that the opposition has taken to the streets, and that there has been violence against them by militias resonsible, probably not to Ahmadi-nejad, but to the mullahs that he works for. One interpretation is that the people of Iran have been fooled by a fantasy that the Islamic Revolution of 1979 was actually a harbinger of democracy and political liberty. Iran appears to have quietly become a military dictatorship like any other, with periodic rigged elections intended to provide no more than a thin veneer of legitimacy to the established political power.
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