Iran farce (update)

In stark contrast to CNN and BBC, who are trying to depict this ridiculous scam as democracy in action (and we know why), the New York Times today has a good editorial (free registration):

Today's presidential election in Iran is an affront to true democracy, just as the past record of the front-running contender, Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is an affront to true moderation. As President Bush rightly noted, the voting was effectively rigged in advance by the council of unelected clerics that decided who would and who wouldn't be allowed to run.

CNN's Mrs Amanpour bland interview of Mr Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the front runner in these "elections", must have pleased her husband very much. I wonder how her good friend Oriana Fallaci is taking it:

… she (Fallaci) once became so disgusted while interviewing Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that she ripped off her head scarf and threw it in his face.