Iran

[mindways]

Follow ongoing events in Iran's election dispute/demonstration/crackdown via twitter aggregation, links, etc.

FiveThirtyEight.com is covering the statistics of it all in and amongst their other stuff. (Executive summary: Some of the allegations floating around online don't hold much water; others do raise points which seem quite valid; and

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[cos]

Instead of relying on abstract statistical analysis, though, we can look at Juan Cole's analysis of how the results don't match reality (oops, thought I'd posted that to coslinks yesterday, doing that now...). He's using actual knowledge of Iranian political and demographic splits and voting trends and his analysis boils down to this being about as fishy as if McCain had won Massachusetts in 2008 with a 30% margin.

juancole.com is one of the best places for analysis of the Iran election currently.

[z_gryphon]

I like how the diagram subtly makes plain that everything on the chart apart from the Ayatollah is irrelevant. Notice where all the actual power depends from...

[cmdr_zoom]

Yup. In practical terms, they could simplify that diagram a lot. Or perhaps have the arrow from the voters lead to a trash can.

[meiczyslaw]

See also Micheal J. Totten's coverage over at Commentary magazine.

[mindways]

Mmm, that is good - thanks for the link!

[meiczyslaw]

No problem.

(Totten's my regular lefty Middle East reporter. It would be nice if Yon was posting on the subject, too, but he's a point-of-the-spear kind of guy, and currently covering the war in the Phillipines.)