Kriston points me to this takeoff/update on Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi’s pathbreaking comic book about growing up in the shadow of the Islamic Revolution. Naturally, this is about the theft of the June 12 election. I’d post images, but it seems like this is best viewed as an entire Flickr slideshow.

And as long as we’re talking about Iran, check out Trita Parsi’s quote to Laura Rozen about nuclear diplomacy. 

"I don’t share the view of some in Washington that the hardliners for ideological reasons cannot make a deal with the U.S.," said the National Iranian American Council’s Trita Parsi. "On the contrary, they can and they want to. But they insist that deal has to be with them, not with the reformists. Once in a more comfortable situation – that is, having incapacitated their reformist opposition – it wouldn’t be surprising to see the hardliners show a modicum of flexibility at various phases of diplomacy."

That does place negotiations in the very uncomfortable context of regime preservation. I’m not saying that it makes negotiations impossible or unwise. But we should be clear about the consequences. I’ve emailed Trita to ask him to tease this point out further but I haven’t heard back yet.