Iran's anger will not fade fast
Reports over the weekend that as many as 110 Iranian reformist politicians had been arrested late at night have given further credence to suggestions that more is afoot than simple election manipulation, and that the "landslide" election victory of the country's incumbent president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a means to a broader end.
Indeed, a question from a hardline journalist at yesterday's press conference provided further evidence of a deeper agenda being pursued by Ahmadinejad with the apparent full support of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. The question addressed the letter sent last week by the hitherto powerful chairman of the Expediency Council, the former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in which he had protested against the lies and slander hurled against him and his family by Ahmadinejad.… Seguir leyendo »