According to a report in The Guardian, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to be defeated in tomorrow's election by the 'moderate green' Mir Hossein Mousavi.
As long as the vote isn't rigged, experts are predicting that Mousavi will win by a fairly large margin. Iranians are apparently growing increasingly dissatisfied with Ahmadinedjad, which has also lead to fears of civil unrest if he were somehow to keep his job.
Mousavi is neither a saint nor a liberator, but he is quite significantly to the lef of Ahmadinejad and has pledged to increase personal freedoms.
Wouldn't it be ironic if, after being threatened by the Americans, condemned by the UN security council and attacked by most of the planet, Ahmadinejad were removed by the people of Iran. It just goes to show how, often, the greatest antidote is time.
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