Iranian Election Divides Arabs, Their Leaders

by Peter Kenyon
Morning Edition
National Public Radio
June 25, 2009

Around the Arab world, reactions to the Iranian election have ranged from street demonstrations to Internet protests. But Arab leaders, many of whom are wary of the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have either remained silent or embraced his re-election as legitimate...The gap between the public and their leaders in the tightly controlled, economically powerful Persian Gulf states has rarely been this clear...