It certainly pisses off certain people in the West when the countries they most would like to attack demonstrate that they have a working democracy, doesn't it, Akenaton?

This has been true in the case of Chile, Nicaragua, Iran, and Venezuela, to name just four examples. USA-planned coups have been arranged from time to time to nip troublesome foreign democracies in the bud and replace them with corporate-friendly dictators. That was done in Iran in the 1950s through a CIA-backed coup. It was done in Chile in the 1970s. It was attempted in Venezuela a few years back, but it failed. In Nicaraugua the USA funded a lengthy and brutal guerilla war to bring down an elected government. The man they wanted out of office at that time (Daniel Ortega) has since lost a democractic election (to Violetta Chammoro?) and later been re-elected by the Nicaraguan people. Nicaraguan democracy has survived in spite of America, not because of America.

I hope Mousavi wins. When and if he does, I hope he can exercise much peaceful change.