Iran pokes its head up

Since Iran has moved into a very backroom stage, we're seeing very little of the power struggle, but every once in awhile, you'll see a fin break the water, "Rafsanjani says Iran in crisis after election," "Rafsanjani calls for protesters release".

This is the first time in two months that Rafsanjani led prayers at Tehran University, and the first time that Rafsanjani himself has publicly commented on the election and conflict. His publicly taking a side probably means that we're at some significant point in the backroom politics where Rafsanjani felt he needed to inject some momentum.

There we're accompanying street protests of "thousands" around the university. The largest for some time.

It's hard to read this without all the backroom stuff, but I would guess this is probably significant. (Alot more of the sermon here.)