happens again. they don't want a reform candidate to win, and they certainly do not want to see the kind of mess that happened after the last election, which was broadcast around the world when people were, as i say, brutally repressed, people were killed, people were imprisoned, indeed many bloggers and journalists are in prison right now ahead of the elections, so there isn't the same kind of expression as there was last time. >> and of course, the man ultimately in charge of that the ayatollah. we just heard reza profiling him. there's only been two supreme leaders since the revolution. obviously he's older. what would happen if there were a transition? >> well, look, he is in power until he dies. that is the way of the constitution and of the religious theocracy there. so he stays where he is until he dies. but what is going on right now, according to many analysts is