Iran's ongoing internal "chess match," the intense controversy over Iran's presidential elections and the aftermath, is not only "not over," it's getting profoundly interesting. The charges & counter-charges continue to fly, with both sides dredging up extraordinary heavyweights, figuratively and literally, to their cause. A few mind-boggling examples:

Those notables who boycotted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-inauguration included no less than Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the very Ayatollah who led the 1979 revolution. Khomeini was otherwise occupied visiting one Alireza Beheshti, son of a famous clerical martyr from the early years of the revolution. Beheshti had just been released from imprisonment -- for being a close aide to Mir Hossen Musavi, the still resisting leader of the green wave.

From another direction, Mohammad Javad Larijani is the newest prominent voice blasting Musavi and Khomeini for "treason," for betraying the revolution (etc., etc.) Curious. I've long followed Javad Larijani's work. When not being a genuine "theoretical physicist," he's been a noted "facilitator" behind various efforts to improve ties to the US. He's also a member of the extraordinary brothers Larijani (e.g. Ali, current Parliamentary speaker and Sadegh, the new Judiciary Chief).

Topping that comes a pointed question for Larijani from Mohammad Ali Ansari, a keeper of the flame (if you will) for Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini as the director of Khomeini's Publications. While defending the house of Khomeini, Ansari tosses his own rhetorical doozy:

"how can we criticize a ban on holocaust investigations calling it an undemocratic act, and then adamantly deny a simple demand for a probe into a recent election in Iran?"

What a question.

PS: Bonus prediction:

Never mind the foregoing, or perhaps indeed because of it, watch for an internal "grand bargain" -- orchestrated by Rafsanjani & Rezaei, then "up" via Khamenei, a "national unity" plan. Stay tuned.