This latest from the New York Times suggests how the popular rejection of the re-election of President Ahmadinejad continues to play out in Iran. (Commentary from Swampland here.) If the mullahs in Qom are speaking out against the regime, what’s next? It’s rather difficult to paint this opposition as the work of traitors, criminals, and foreign agitators when the religious leaders of one of the holiest sites in Shi’a Islam call the Ahmadinejad government illegitimate.
This uprising isn’t going to simply go away. And it seems to further justify the Obama administration’s approach to the crisis so far–condemn the violence and let events internal to Iran play out.
