re: #81 BryanS

Curious how Moussavi was so threatening to the ayatollahs. Even a modest change under him—and he was approved to run anyway by them—was more than they could tolerate.

My take on it is that Moussavi wasn’t a threat to them, because there was never a chance he was going to win. This election was no different from the ones they have in Cuba, or what they had in Saddam’s Iraq, except that they wanted the results to be a little more plausible than the 99% Saddam and Fidel got.

Basically, Moussavi was allowed to run as a “reform” candidate, and he was given a respectable number of votes to make it look like a real election.

The problem is that so many people actually voted for him that it made their “results” appear obviously faked.

Now they don’t know what to do.