Diary on Mohammad Khatami running for president in Iran makes it to the front page of Daily Kos

In case you like reading long discussions on current political events, you might want to check out this diary entry here on Daily Kos that has a few hundred replies already. A number of the members there are either from Iran or have parents from there so there's more than your average amount of political insight one usually gets from comments on a news article.

Some comments I found to be particularly interesting are: here, here, here, here, hier, hier, hier...und hier! <-- actually I haven't seen the video for that last one (1.5 hours long) but most documentaries about daily life in country x are very insightful. I also found two videos on YouTube today with a recording of Khatami announcing his run for the presidency:

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