In the most important development for freedom in post-Revolutionary Iran, on Saturday the country's leading religious body broke ranks with the Ayatollah, whose word is supposed to be final: Leading clerics defy Ayatollah on Iran election

An excerpt:

CAIRO - The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.

A statement by the group, the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qum, represents a significant, if so far symbolic, setback for the government and especially the authority of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose word is supposed to be final. The government has tried to paint the opposition and its top presidential candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, as criminals and traitors, a strategy that now becomes more difficult — if not impossible.

“This crack in the clerical establishment, and the fact they are siding with the people and Moussavi, in my view is the most historic crack in the 30 years of the Islamic republic,” said Abbas Milani, director of the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford University. “Remember, they are going against an election verified and sanctified by Khamenei.”

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Meanwhile, our myopic little President still refuses to grasp or acknowledge that what's happening in Iran is a full-blown revolution, one he could get out in front of on the side of liberty. This rift having taken place on the day we celebrate our own freedom, he could have stood up and spoken about the dream of all people on Earth one day enjoying the same.

Instead, the crickets continue to chirp.

Does Barack Obama actually want people to endure lives of oppression at the hands of their governments? Oh, that's right, by his own early policy course it is clear that he does. There can't be any other explanation for his near-silence on Iran and his simultaneous "meddling" in support of a Honduran strongman.