The Washington Post reports that Hossein Ali Montazeri has been freed. (You'll have to scroll down to find the story. Just search on "Montazeri.")

As with many things, it would not do to put too much on this one man, who is hardly a liberal by most standards. But freeing him signals a continued shift by the regime in Tehran, and in the right direction. We can't do enough to try to help these folks.