Iran Election Result

The problem with Democracy is that other countries, quite rudely, don't always elect who we want them to.
Iranians woke up today to find that the man they expected to be President, Mir Hussein Mousavi, has been surprisingly beaten by the incumbent President Amhadinerjad.
More than a few eyebrows have been raised by the speed at which the vote counters went about totalling the tens of millions of voting slips as to be able to give the nod towards Amhadinerjad having an unassailable lead mere hours after voting ended.
Mr Mousavi issued a statement dismissing the election result as deeply flawed and suggesting that there was a shortage of ballot papers and election monitors were not allowed enough access to polling stations.
With more than 90% of results in, the commission said he won 64% support in an election marked by high turnout which should have been more of a help to the opposition against a President blamed for many of Iran's problems at home and on the international stage.
Unless Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei steps in to force a re-election, and the chances of that happening are negligible, then we have another 4 years of Amhadinerjad which nobody expects to be any different from the past 4.
What's important now is that the three main players in the Middle East have been shaken and the dust has settled with a new American president, a new Israeli prime minister and a new mandate for the Iranian president.
It is even more important now that the pieces are in place, as objectionable as these pieces are in Israel and Iran, that America reigns in Israel and Iran accepts the hand of friendship America is offering because for the next four years the Middle East is going to be as volatile a place as ever unless the hardliners in Tehran and Jerusalem change their thinking.