The Wall Street Journal – Review & Outlook: To gauge the radicalism of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s next president, consider that prior to Friday’s run-off election Western media widely described him as a “hardliner,” whereas rival candidate Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a “moderate.”

Los Angeles Times: Did those wily ayatollahs give us the purple finger again? It sure looks like it after the smashing defeat Iran’s religious fanatics dealt reformers in the presidential election Friday. It was a replay of the election in Iraq, in which candidates groomed by Tehran’s theocracy herded loyal Shiite followers to the polls to dip their fingers in purple election ink. Only this time the sight of lines of shuffling, chador-clad women voting away their human rights was not applauded by the White House.

Washington Post – Editorial: Iranians once again have voted for change in their authoritarian and corrupt Islamic regime. Their choice for president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, differs dramatically from the liberalizing reformer voters backed in two previous elections, but Mr. Ahmadinejad, a religious hard-liner, is no more likely to satisfy restless Iranians than his failed predecessor. He should instead prompt the West to rethink its own strategy for promoting freedom inside Iran, and for containing Iran’s nuclear program and support for terrorism.