The Carnegie Endowment had a fascinating interview with Karim Sadjadpour parsing the internal jockeying going on behind the scenes in Iran.
Juan Cole (scroll down a little to find the article) provides more excellent commentary, this time with regards to the Chatham House report,which argues quite convincingly that the Iranian election was if not stolen than massively sabotaged.
In broader news, Foreign Policy released its annual survey on failed states. Both the quantitative data and the articles and photo essay that accompany the data are interesting reads.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/the_2009_failed_states_indexhttp://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/06/22/the_2009_failed_states_index
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