It's what they're seeing, not "saw." It's still going on, and your clumsy headline makes it seem as though it's over, nothing to see here. It's not. No wonder this has been up for a while and this is the first letter.

I'm not sure if that says more about Salon's editors or its readers.

In case anyone cares, Iran is really about to explode. Ahmadinejad has left the country, possibly to keep his hands clean of a massacre.

And Huffington Post is kicking Salon's ass as regards coverage:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/iran-election

And the protesters themselves, for that matter:

http://twitter.com/IranElection09

Not that it's just Salon. It's the whole MSM. I will use the most recent and poignant example: NIGHTLINE this evening.

Nightline was born 30 years ago, developed out of a nightly update by Ted Koppel on the Iranian Hostage Crisis. If not for the Iranian Revolution, Nightline would not exist.

So you'd think that, with Iran exploding, this would dominate at least tonight's program.

Actually, no. Instead, though they had a teaser about Iran at the start of the show, they devoted over 20 minutes of a half-hour show to Suze Orman, a segment that could have been broadcast on any night. So the show is all about Orman, no Iran at all, except a brief mention at the end.

The irony.

It's certainly an example of why ABC's news department has devolved into something totally worthless.

Meanwhile, the Daily Show led with it and even have Jason Jones in Tehran. No, really, they do. I assume they weren't expecting this. But they can boast to have something most of the networks don't: a correspondent in Iran.

Excellent photos here. Many thousands of words are expressed.

Other than the vast disparity between the polls prior to the election and the '2/3rds vote' for the most rightwing clerical politician, are there any other facts that people are citing to show election fraud? I believe there was fraud, but the dearth of independent observers and facts is somewhat baffling. In Florida, there were many facts, though the U.S. is a more 'open' society, of course.

Until there is at least a split in the armed forces of Iran, or the movement against clericalism is lead by someone more determined or to the left than Rafsajani or Khatemi, or some other wing of the liberal clerical grouping, you will not see a "Green" revolution... an actual overturn of Sharia and clerical rule. Of course, what I see here is a rehersal for that event. But I don't think it is that event.

This nonsense has Jew written all over it.

Fuck off Nazi scum.

..and they are probably behind much of the problems in Iran now. They are surely behind the way our mainstream news media portrays events now in Iran. The trouble in Iran helps distract from our current economic problems...which, according to Chris Hedge's latest article in Truthdig is soon to collapse to the point that the US will no longer be able to have it's military spread out all over the world. The end of the dollar hegemony and the coming superinflation will have us all in soup lines and shaking in our boots to even question authority.

One thing for sure....our politicians can't keep a straight face when they accuse Iran of conducting a dishonest election. Bush was dishonestly elected without a doubt...twice.