Corporate Anti Hero

Mostly a point to Juan Cole's excellent post on recent Iranian political history. His argument is that reformists* constitute a large majority in Iranian politics, so Mousavi's claims of victory are entirely credible.

One thing that does seem to be clear at this distance is that Ahmedinijad has engaged in massive and not very subtle vote rigging. Claiming you won in your rival's strongholds doesn't really add credibility.

* although we should all remember that Mousavi, while a moderately reform minding Iranian politician is extraordinarily conservative by our standards, and a paid up subscriber to Iran's theocracy...