Tehran dispatch: Supreme Leader speaks

Khamanei weeps, he tells us there was no vote rigging, and he seems to give a green light for a crackdown

It is Friday prayers, and the venue is the open-air mosque at Tehran University, but the event looks more like the old Red Square May Day parades. All of Iran, watching in person, or on television, takes careful note of who is there, and who is not. Supreme Leader Khamanei is there, as is President Ahmadinejad as are Larajani and Haddad Adel. So is Mohsen Rezai, former commander of the Revolutionary Guard and one-time electoral foe of Ahmadinejad, sitting in the back of the VIP section. Karroubi, Mousavi, Rafsanjani and Khatami are not.…Supreme Leader Khamanei starts speaking. [read more…]

by Anonymous | from www.salon.com | posted: 19 June  2009