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Thank you for writing this and the earlier articles from Iran.

Your previous article from right after the crackdown, when you were seeing your fellow citizens in the street and wondering, when you were staying up late with friends and processing it all, was a masterpiece.

I have an acquaintance who voted in the election from the U.S. She, too, is still marveling that she felt it was worthwhile to vote. She is clearly experiencing a complicated stew of strong emotions.

Byzantine analysis, what it all means, these are questions for later. Right now the story of what Iranian people are feeling and thinking and experiencing is not being reported. Thank you muchly.

Democracy American style: The corporate/media/warmongers pick the candidates beforehand. No matter which candidate wins, the corporate/media/warmongers get their man.

FTFY!

Every few years Iran stages these mysterious 'student revolts' that quickly come and mysteriously go again. They mean nothing, do nothing. Iranians are fiercely nationalistic and given the choice between the Mullahfukaz and foreign intervention, or even concern, they pick the Mullahfukaz every time.

So give it a few years, you'll get your Twitter Rebellion to come again. You'll blog, you'll shake your fist at America, Israel, Religion and whatnot. In a few weeks everyone goes home to surreptitiously watch Bravo on illegal satellite TV.

Their vote did NOT matter because voting does not matter, least of all from the smug pampered urban middle class of Tehran.

I would say that's pretty clearly a fake photo you've got there. The "Where is my VOTE" type isn't actually printed on that piece of paper he's holding. Just look at the wrinkles in the page, and the total lack of corresponding distortion in the printing. Particularly noticeable in the word "VOTE".

What's the story on that, Salon?

...but we Americans still don't have a dog in that fight.

It's time for us to quit meddling in what doesn't concern us, and start paying attention to problems closer to home.

Such as an economically illiterate and oppressive regime in Washington DC that is putting the screws to people we do know and (presumably) love; ourselves and our fellow Americans.

Their utopianist and Wilsonite ideology is setting the stage for the systematic destruction of the American economy and American liberties. Such few as are left and untouched now, that is.

Your servant,

Lord Karth

Democracy Iranian style: The Supreme Leader picks the candidates beforehand. No matter which candidate wins, the Mullahs get their man.

The fact is that up until four Saturdays ago, Iran's system, with all of its limitations and compromises, was not completely rotten.

Actually, it's pretty clear that Iran's system was completely rotten before that.

Just as we Americans discovered our system to be on the day the Supreme Court appointed George W. Bush the President.

In both cases, it had been rotten prior to the revealing incident. It had simply been better hidden before.

FTFY!

How many people who voted for Obama lost their vote to a Bush III?

Did your vote count?

If you only voted for him because he was black, your vote counted.

If you only voted for him because he wasn't Bush, your vote did not count.

Before you worry about the dust mote in someone else's eye, try prying the Pentacon out of your own eye.