I’ve been following the events unfolding on Twitter and the various links to other social networking sites, and it has been fascinating. Despite all the recent scepticism about Twitter, this does seem to be a real time unrolling of events. If you want to follow what is going on you need to log into Twitter and type #IranElection or #gr88 into the search engine and watch as the stream of news comes up.

Personally I think Obama has been correct to keep any comments from the Oval Office muted. Any sign of support from the USA for the demonstrators could result in a terrible crackdown by the hardliners and would certainly be regarded as interference in the affairs of a sovereign state. To say the world is watching is at this stage enough. One wishes the Green Revolution well, but this is an affair for Iranians to sort out for themselves. It is a pity that Russia hasn’t learnt this lesson and is sabre rattling for the discredited Iranian government. Mousavi is not a moderate in western terms but he does seem to have the backing of his people. If the election has been snatched as suggested then only a rerun will be acceptable to the Iranian people, a recount would be ridiculous.