Whoever the new President, things will unlikely change in Iran

Presidential elections are today occurring in Iran to elect the successor of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The new President will take office for the next four years. The turnout could be partly conditioned by the negative image Iranians hold about the 2009 regime's crackdown. Four years ago the outcome from the ballot box was staunchly contested by large segments of the Iranian civil society who voted for the then two reformist candidates, Mir Hossein Mussavi and Mehdi Karrubi, who are currently under house arrest since February 2011. The symbol of the repression was the killing of the 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, the sadly famous Gaze of the Gazelle captured in a video that was suddenly broadcast all over the world.