Bar the one post, I haven't been spamming you about Iran. I should have been, but I haven't; outside of two or three people, the lack of noise about it on my flist (and my habit of putting my foot square in my mouth when speaking about things) led me to suspect that it would be ill-received. I've spent most of the past week on ontd_political's liveposts, on the various sites that are following this (HuffPo, The Daily Dish, iran.whyweprotest.net, etc.), and on Twitter, the primary point of contact between the Iranians on the ground - the students, the housewives, the marchers in the streets - and the outside world.

Earlier today, Ayatollah Khamenei made a speech at Friday prayers dismissing the protests as the work of international anti-Iranian elements wishing to destabilise the regime; he told the protesters that he, Ahmadinejad, and the rest of the government shall not be moved; he insinuated the beginning of a much severer crackdown on any further protests.

Another Sea of Green march is scheduled for this weekend.

A few minutes ago @ProtesterHelp, a US-based tweep who has been instrumental in communicating with reliable Iranian sources and privately relaying secure internet proxies, tweeted the following:

Mousavi's offices are trashed, Mousavi's staff in police custody, Mousavi is missing. #iranelection #gr88 #clarification

I am sitting here on the edge of my seat, queasy with horror, waiting for this to either be confirmed or debunked - or at the very least clarified.

Start getting angry.

ETA: In case anyone is wondering, at least one reliable tweep in Iran has said that Mousavi is fine, while @ProtesterHelp has had no certain information either way. So basically, we still don't know anything (although the trashed offices and arrested staff have been confirmed).