The Supreme Leader

In his first response to a week of protests of the disputed election, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said opposition leaders "will be held accountable for all the violence, bloodshed and rioting" if they do not halt the rallies.

The situation in Iran very much mirrors what happened in America back in the 2000 election of President Bush–the stolen election. The rallies and protests have ignited a movement of change, but it is important to follow the rules.

Once the son of a wise man was beckoned by his father, on the way he passed through a room where the children were playing blind man’s bluff; a blindfolded child touched the son of the wise man and said, “You’re it.” When a second messenger from the father asked the son why he had not gone to his father, the son replied, “Tell my father I am playing a game.”

Later the son explained that it is very important to teach children to follow the rules and if he was It, then he had to play the game.