[PhilDragoo]

If Khamenei "strikes hard" he may invigorate the revolution rather than intimidate it.

If he attempts Gorbachev-like liberalization he may lose control just the same.

Ahmadinejad in Moscow--if he is cagey, he will confer with cagey-bee.

Only ruthless, cunning repression of a certain type could succeed--

--for which Ahmadinejad should be booking flights on to Beijing.

An exchange student from China told a radio host last month that they are taught that Tiananmen involved one soldier who dropped his weapon and accidentally killed one student-demonstrator.

Iran has too many cell phones--

Can we just get along--dispatch James Earl Carter immediately without escort to wander alone in the sea of seething dissatisfaction.

Karma coming home to roost.

[MestaMachine]

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's state radio says seven people died in clashes in Tehran after an "unauthorized gathering" following a mass rally over alleged election fraud.
The radio report says the seven died in shooting that erupted after several people at the gathering Monday night in western Tehran "tried to attack a military location."
More than 100,000 opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had marched through Tehran earlier Monday protesting alleged vote rigging in last week's elections.
The report Tuesday gave no details. It was the first official confirmation of the shooting in Tehran's Azadi Square. Witnesses there saw at least one person shot dead and several others seriously wounded after shooting from a compound for volunteer militia linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard

This is starting to look serious.