Editor's Note: the Iran posts

I publish three post by Tom on Iran today. Obviously this is a rapidly changing situation. Please note the order of the posts, the same order in which Tom wrote them. That means, the way our weblog publishes them, if you just read down the page you will read them in reverse order.

Tom says: Reality is that Sean was overseas the past ten days and I was in Shanghai for much of last week, so keeping things running on the blog was fairly tricky. .