The Ranting Persian

Rafsanjani will in a few hours lead the Friday prayers at Tehran. As both the reformists and hardliners will show up for the event in numbers.

The Iranian Presidential Election on June 12th, 2009, appears to have been rigged in favor of the incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Millions of Iranians have marched throughout different cities in Iran demanding their voices to be heard and their votes to be fairly counted. Thanks to information technology and the social media revolution, the crisis has gathered much attention around the world and thousands of bloggers, twitterers, and regular folks everywhere are standing in solidarity with the protesters in Iran.