Protest over the rigged election continue in Iran. No surprise there, the rigging appears to have been obvious, inept and ridiculous.
However you do have to ask why it was rigged.
The thing is that the election was pre rigged. Only those candidates acceptable to the Guardian Council could stand. Mir Hussein Mousavi, as ManWiddicombe points out is no bleeding heart liberal human rights activist.
So if you have fixed the election by hand picking all the candidates, why not stop there?
Besides which, it is entirely possible that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have won the election in a fair election.
Instead of which what they have got is a potential revolution and a weakened state.
The BBC has this.
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