When it became known that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was to address Friday Prayers at Tehran University, there was a sense of anticipation.
Having initially endorsed the official election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and then sanctioned a partial recount, the ayatollah had seemed to give ground. His decision to speak in one of the hotbeds of support for the main opposition candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, raised hopes that further concessions might be in the offing.
How quickly were those hopes dashed. The ayatollah delivered a long and at times menacing address, in which he conjured up once again the old image of the enemy: the UK, …
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