I have no idea why this story still has legs.   In terms of US and regional interests there is very little difference between candidates A and M.    The idiot US press has managed to convince lots of Americans that this was a contest between a hard-liner and a moderate, but they are both hard-liners!   And people are acting "shocked, shocked" that Iran might manipulate an election. The most amazing example of this idiocy is the Persian-American population, many of who were supporters of the Shah, so should certainly know the score.

One can only hope that Allatolah Khamenei's comments today will disabuse even the uninformed of any doubts about who's in charge in Iran.

The GOP has been calling on Obama to take a stronger position on the matter, but there's nothing useful that can come of that. Iran, like many of the countries in that region, including Iraq and Afghanistan, has no real cultural understanding of democracy and it's naive to think that we can change that by banging our shoe on the table.