A day after US President Barack Obama said that the policies of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and election opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi were similar, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that both Iranian presidential candidates were fundamentalists. …Mossad chief Meir Dagan told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that “what matters is the position of the [supreme] leader and this has not changed. The riots are taking place only in Teheran and one additional region. They won’t last for long.” Dagan said he didn’t believe the riots would become a full-fledged revolution. The violence in the wake of the allegations of vote-rigging was not different from “any other democracy,” he said, adding that the discussion over the elections currently involved only a small sector of the Iranian population. .
