Iran at breaking point

Read about it at Tehran Bureau: 

The real explosion could some within a few days, when the so-called Guardian Council — a group of twelve bearded old clerics slavishly loyal to Khamenei — confirms the bogus election results. If they do — as expected — sometime mid-week, it’s possible that the sustained street protests could become a revolution.

From an Iranian source, it appears that for Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, Medhi Karroubi, and other leaders of the movement, there’s no backing down. Here’s what he said: “Mousavi and the others cannot compromise. They know that if Ahmadinejad remains in power, he will try to eliminate all of them. All of them. And it will be violent.”