Iran a step backward

As expected Violence Erupts in Iran, after observers accuse the rulers of voting irregularities, before a single vote was cast the Moussavi camp were warning that the Government would do anything to hold on to power, including cheating. Ahmadinejad claimed 63% of the vote, this figure is extremely dubious, though there was a massive 85% turnout most of these were liberal and moderate voters who turned out for the challenger, indeed one poll of five thousand voters translated into a 58% win for Moussavi. I warned beforehand of problems, and this has now become a reality with fighting in the streets of Tehran and other city's. How serious this will become is yet to be determined, without the backing of clerics it is unlikely to go further than some civil unrest for a week or so then fizzle away. The real power in Iran rests with one man The supreme leader Ayatollah Khameni who has thrown his considerable weight behind the sitting President, in fact it was Khameni's backing that bought the unknown Ahmadinejad to power in 2005. Iran is fast becoming a tyranny, the chance for Iranians to take a step back, and work towards normalising relations with we in the West, and their own neighbours looks to have slipped away.