Election Results in Iran Pt Deuce

It's June 15, 2009 and the protests in Iran over the election results are still going strong.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had previously closed the door to a possibility of disputing the election results, but now he's apparently changed his mind and is pushing for an election probe to examine the charges of alleged rigging.

Whoever said protests didn't work?

Meanwhile people in the city streets are in open confrontation, with police and people in plainclothes (armed with bludgeoning weapons) combing the streets for anti-Ahmadinejad protestors. It is certainly getting ugly over there.

What will this election probe find?

As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."

Election Results in Iran

Unless you've been under a rock for the past couple days, the Iranians just held a presidential election.

Ahmadinejad, the hard-liner incumbent pres who basks in the Ayatollah's support, VS. former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi, the moderate candidate with the best chance of winning.

And...Ahmadinejad won.

Not that surprising.

But what is shocking is the fact that Ahmadinejad won by 62.6%! And this is after his old club, the Revolutionary Guards, said they would not tolerate a "velvet revolution"* by Mousavi's supporters.

Oh yeah. I smell an election fraud. And so do Mousavi's supporters. They have gone into "Fight the Power" mode big time. (And Anarcho, if you're reading this: ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWAH!)

Iran be very interesting to watch over the next week or so.

What will happen to the Islamic Republic of Iran since these protests are the largest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution?

As the Zen Master says, "We'll see."

*(term used for the non-violent overthrow of the Communist government in Czechoslovakia in 1989)