In case you haven’t heard, and if you get your news from the TV in the USA you may not have, there is all sorts of unrest in Iran following the recent election. I don’t have time to find and post a bunch of good links, but The Big Picture has the big picture of what’s been going on in Iran right now.
Just Orb
A Tangential Autobiography
Apropos to your post …
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
There is most definitely some crazy stuff going on in Iran right now. Hopefully the end result will be someone in the president’s office who is slightly less insane.