The recent election in Iran is part of what an Iranian scholar calls a creeping coup d’Etat. The Revolutionary Guards are taking over as Iran becomes a military dictatorship. This might even be an improvement if these men are more rational then the clergy who seem to yearn for martyrdom. Whatever it is, it is not democracy.
Maybe this is evidence of sanity. Kissinger said at Davos, “the Iranian government has to decide if they are a cause or a state.”
UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt interviewed Robin Wright on her new book about the middle east, an interview worth reading. I may get the book, as well. It sounds powerful.