Iranian Election 2

So, things seem to have gotten very interesting in the last few days. It seems to me either the government has realised just how much they miscalculated – or, more likely, that the Guardian Council was never entirely sold on rigging the election in the first place. If they’d really wanted to keep Mousavi from winning, they’d have blocked him from running months ago – the sheer sloppiness of the official election results strongly implies the decision to alter the results was a last minute decision, one I think they’re clearly regretting now… of course, at this point, a recount isn’t going to have any more legitimacy than the original results.

On the plus side, at least they seem to have started to try to dig themselves out of the hole they made for themselves rather than just sending in the army, and the protesters don’t seem likely to give in any time soon. Let’s hope they’ll be able to swallow their pride and announce a new run-off election or something, rather than trying to stand by an Ahmadinejad victory – if not, this could get uglier…

Interesting that Ahmadinejad is in Russia now – just trying to make it look like things have returned to normal, or did someone with a little common sense realise he’s really not a voice of reason or likely to calm things down and decided it’d be best if he left the country for a little while?

One thing that annoys me about all this is that I may be forced to reconsider my strongly held belief that Twitter is an utterly useless technology…

Good luck again to the people of Iran, and let’s all hope this ends without any further bloodshed.