Here’s a video from Ahmadinejad’s election certification ceremony on Monday. Much was made about Ahmadinejad kissing Khamenei’s hand at his 2005 inaguration, so it seems significant that this year yielded an awkward rebuff when Ahmadinejad went in this year. The moment is getting quite a ton of play in Arab media. I got an urgent text message alert yesterday on my phone from the Egyptian-run Middle East News Agency, and below is a series of frames that Asharq al-Awsat splashed on today’s front page. A CBS news video flagged by Juan Cole cited this as evidence of “cracks in the leadership.” But given the events of the last two months, I’d say this is more nick in the varnish than crumbling foundation. -WW
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