Stand up Sit Down

Here is probably the most cogent commentary I've seen on the situation and what America should or shouldn't do now. "This movement has been decades, if not centuries, in the making. And it needs no American money to sustain itself. The only thing it needs is the moral voice of the American civil rights movement to come to its aid."

Stand Up - this person, who has family in Iran, has written a very thoughtful letter to US Senators.

Asia Times: Ahmadinejad had replaced 10,000 key government bureaucrats with his cronies during first term, including those responsible for elections. Also, "Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, known as 'the crocodile' in Iran...issued a fatwa legitimizing any means necessary to keep Ahmadinejad in power."

Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad purges officials with ties to opposition candidates and lets it be known "he won't tolerate dissent" in his second term. The Ghosts of The Chain of Murders hang over this election and the repression. Many of those involved in the events of ten years ago now serve with Ahmadinejad.