Best Article on Iran Election Process I've seen

[Occhidiangela]

The drama in Iran continues, and I guess it will until there is a declaration of unity or the clerics take each other out. Ayatollah Rafsanjani still hasn't fully come out as declaring that the election was manipulated, or condemning the violence of the state against its own people. But, maybe he doesn't need to do so. His proxies can do that and it insulates him from dire consequences if the political winds blow against him.

Khatami's latest utterance, that I picked up off the news sites today, seems to be that he's speaking publicly with the aim of telling a few of his rivals, like the Raf meister, that he ain't gonna back down.

That's my read, but I may be off on that one.