NEGLECTING INFRASTRUCTURE: “I thought this sort of headline was limited to Iraq, but it turns out that the Iranians are also suffering electrical shortages. You may well ask how a country drowning in oil revenues can have made such a mess of such things, but it turns out that the mullahs have an extraordinary ability to make messes.”

UPDATE: Several readers email that enriching uranium uses a lot of electricity. True! I don’t know if that explains the problems here or not. The CIA should know — but then, they should have seen the trouble in Georgia coming, too!