The Iranian elections are over and resulted in a huge victory for the "moderates" or "reformers."  A new era has dawned in Iran.  Gone is the paranoid, inward-looking, oppressive, fanatically religious, extremist, violent, terror-supporting conservative regime to be replaced by an almost Western-style government of tolerance and light. Well...that's the media narrative, and they're sticking to it. Indeed, this sort of wishful thinking occurs every five years when Iranians go to the polls to elect a new president.  The reality is a little different. Reuters: "We won. We've done what we should have for our country. Now it's Rouhani's turn to keep his promises," said coffee shop owner Arash Geranmayeh, 29, reached by telephone in Tehran. Videos from the cities of Kermanshah, Tabriz and the holy city of Mashhad showed hundreds of people in the streets, cheering and dancing. Rouhani, 68, faces the same...(Read Full Post)