All hell has broken out in Iran. Read Juan Cole.
[...] Saeid Shariati, one of the leaders of Mousavi’s campaign, says that 17 million votes may be missing. Another Mousavi campaigner who did not want to be named said that in different cities around Iran, the result of ballot boxes were announced without even opening them. …
We have to wait for the result of Rafsanjani-Mousavi meeting to find out how the reformists are planning to respond to what they call “the fraud of the century.” Judging from their past actions they will most probably reluctantly will accept the result and will not do much. That will leave their supporters angry and suppressed. The events of the past few weeks, especially last night’s result, have polarized Iranians. The political developments may not result in any mass demonstrations such as those that brought down the shah in 1979. But today’s chaos on Vali Asr Avenue shows that a great number of Iranians, at least those millions who voted for Mousavi can at some point in the future ask for a change that may not only reform the Islamic Republic but undermine it as a political system.
The neocons will be happy about this one.
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