I DON’T THINK THINGS HAVE SETTLED DOWN IN IRAN:

The protest was held despite an order at the weekend by the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, that Mr Aghajari’s sentence should be reviewed.

Some students said that the intervention did not go far enough in satisfying their demands.

“Our problem is not only the revision of the death sentence on Hashem Aghajari, but freedom of speech and freedom in general,” student leader Abdollah Momeni told French news agency AFP.

Trouble is, the mullahs can’t satisfy those demands without cutting their own throats. Which is okay with me, but I doubt that they feel the same way.