It appears that the Iranian government is attempting option (1): Massive violent crackdown that puts an end to protests.
What remains to be seen is whether there will be further backlash as more Neda’s are murdered, or whether the brutality will be so great that the streets will be red with blood and any protester will be shot on sight, creating agreement by murdering anyone who disagrees.
It’s a lot of bullets.
Currently the opposition leaders have stopped calling for more protests and have called for a period of mourning for those already killed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090624/ts_nm/us_iran_election
Update: 25 June 2009: it looks like the mourning is being called off as well.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/200962594056586436.html
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