Usually the Left's POV is pretty cut and dried. We are for healthcare, against Republican hypocrite perverts, for Chavez, against waterboarding, etc. But I STILL don't know who the good guys and the bad guys are in Iran.
Chavez says that the Iranian protest is just another "Color Revolution". Petras claims that Ahmadinejad truly does have the support of the salt-of-the-earth people in the countryside. The Guardian claims that Mosauvi is practically the next George Washington. So. Who exactly is right, er, I mean, Left? And will this be the issue (aside from Obama of course) that tears the Left apart?
If Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, had wished to show that the state could be responsive, he would have avoided the harsh language he used yesterday at the Friday prayer meeting at Tehran university. He would have said, or at least hinted, that the election results could be reconsidered. He would not have threatened demonstrators. He would not have attacked foreign powers. He would, in short, have faced up to the fact that his problem is that huge numbers of Iranians will not accept his mere assertion that the results were genuine. If he ever had that kind of authority, he does not have it now. They deem him to be a liar.