Mir Hussein Mousavi is refusing to back down from an implacable Ayatollah Ali al-Khamenei. The Mullahs in Qom and the Assembly of Experts are under immense pressure to conclude the most chaotic episode in Iran’s revolutionary history. They may have just gotten their accidental reprieve as the celebrity website TMZ reports that Michael Jackson has just died here in Los Angeles and the world’s media will have to swing it’s attention deficit-plagued pendulum from the streets of Tehran to Westwood (which is somewhat ironic seeing as LA’s Iranian diaspora has been protesting in said Westwood daily and there was supposed to be some sort of Iranian solidarity day today).