Iranian Election Coverage

Al-Jazeera reports that Iranian hardliners are poised for a landslide victory in today's Parliamentary elections. Getting rid of all the reformist candidates will do that for you. They also banned the last two major reformist newspapers. All this seems part of a continual downslide in civil liberties in Iran and an expansion of hardline power, both of which have been going on since at least last summer and seem to reverse trends from the late 1990's.