The result of the Iranian election is the worst possible outcome for President Obama.
He could have coped quite cheerfully with an Ahmadinejad loss of course but also with a clean-cut win where he could have expressed respect for the government and moved on.
But now it is difficult for him to deal substantively with a regime that seems so illegitimate - result: stasis.
And the result of that could be growing pressure for any outreach to Iran to come to an end.
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