Looking for any signs of hope, not because I feel hopeful, but because it's as well to do so - I see that Khamenei has given the "Guardian Council" an extra five days to come up with a ruling on how far the admitted "irregularities" should be taken into account. I can still envisage a run-off election (as opposed to a re-run of the election) as an way out of the corner. (But it may be too late for that...)

And picking out the British as the target for denunciation and expulsions strikes me as possibly being a way of avoiding tangling with the new US administration. Denouncing the monkey rather than the organ-grinder, so to speak.