A deal in Iran?
From Reza Aslan (no, not the lion) via The Daily Beast:
“At the very least, it seems [Rafsanjani] may have gained enough support from the clerical establishment to force a compromise from Khamenei, one that would entail a runoff election between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main reformist rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.”
This doesn’t sound like a done deal to me, and I’m not sure that it’s even a realistic possibility, but what would it say about the US if, in the aftermath of a contested election with obvious voting irregularities (admittedly, that’s a mild way to put it), Iran actually submits to a new election? Hard to imagine where we would be now if the US had been possessed of that much sense in 2000.
