Now it's confusing - is that 251 out of the original 2200 who were disallowed, or is it an additional 251 beyond the 280 and the 300+ who were supposedly reinstated last week?

If they are only putting 15% or so back on, then it's pretty clear the whole thing is a sham. If they are reinstating a third or more, then perhaps there is some push by one of the factions in play.

But, regardless of the numbers (who controls the initial ballot access requests, anyway?), there isn't going to be change in Iran until people who are outside of the current gangster political structure are able to run things. Nobody associated with Rafsanjani, Khatami, Ahmadinejad, Yazdi, or even Khameini himself will make a difference - they've been in charge since Khomeini died and nothing has 'reformed' one bit.

The push comes from the Ayatollah. There's nothing but gangsters any more than there was here after our Revolution.

Now you're smoking that Belichick weed again - where is the Iranian Madison? Their Jefferson? Heck, they don't even have a Paine. They're all Burrs, and even that isn't a good comparison.

But the real question is this: when a candidate is tagged as 'reformist', what does that mean? That he likes jazz and modern art? A glass of Chablis? That he has the imprimatur of European diplomats?

And are we talking Obama reform, Kucinich reform, or Ron Paul reform? Is anyone to the "left" of Ahmadinejad automatically a reformer? In a gangster government, the word reform is meaningless. Anyone who proposed real change would be taken for a ride pretty quickly.

You keep saying that Khameini is trying to protect the Revolution and grow the economy. They are incompatible.

The Founders actually owned slaves.

Did they murder Jews as a matter of policy?

Our Jews were Indians. The Iranians talk about it. We did it.