from my apartment-watching BBC on Iran

The coverage of the pro-Ahmedinajad and pro-Musawi movements in Iran continues on BBC TV. The BBC often points to the crisis of the regime because of the Guardian council's not recognizing the request of the Musawi supporters to hold new elections. Of course, this is kind of wishfull thinking on the part of the BBC and western govenmemts, who persist in their old grudge against the Iranians for having ousted the Shah and the SAVAC secret police in 1979. While the BBC and now, as of yesterday Ban Ki Moon of the UN, criticize the alleged crackdown on the Mussavi demonstrations, they do have a point in that there are deep divisions in the Iranian capitaist regime right now, and the pro-Mussavi and pro-Ahmedinajad movements are a reflection of this.
The BBC did not and has not interviewed the point of view of workers and farmers in Iran, but rather only the middle class sectors of north Tehran. Ahmedinajad has support, probably, among the poor, and among the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij, but he too, is wavering on whether give up Iran's centrifuge uranium production in order to end the sanctions on Iran.