My only input at this time about the lack of democracy in Iran is to say that we should get no more worked up about the election in Iran than we should about the lack of democracy in places like Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The main difference between these two and Iran, strictly in terms of our concern for democracy or the lack of it, is that the US (and some other Western countries) is helping to prop up the dictatorial regimes in those other countries, and those regimes are willing to do our bidding. Although I think it could be argued that Iran is more democratic than Egypt and Saudi Arabia.