Iran expert Gary Sick has a new post up taking stock of what’s happened over the last 48 hours and what decisions confront the key players in the drama. I won’t try to summarize it. But in his reconstruction of events he does say (what I’d heard earlier but not in a way that seemed reliable) that the Mousavi campaign was apparently notified by election officials that they had won only to see Interior Ministry officials announce an Ahmadinejad victory just a short time later.
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