Nomadzilla shares some thoughts on events in Tehran.
Nomadzilla shares some thoughts on events in Tehran.
"Unfortunately, ahmadinejad supporters cheated during this election, shut the SMS texting service down, beated and stabbed mir-hossein supporters in streets and threw tear gas into mir-hossein's HQ in tehran."
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in the interest of balance, I was in iran for 3 weeks, coming back last weekend. I attended a moussavi rally in esfahan, watched the 30 min tv spots for both leading candidates, as well as the debates between ahmadinejad and moussavi, and moussavi and rezai (one of the less prominent candidates), and vicariously (through translation) caught endless pieces of discussions about the election.
it was almost universally agreed that moussavi made a poor showing on every front. a lot of people who had been on the fence were steered away from moussavi by his debate performances. his base was more anti-ahmadinejad than pro-moussavi, but this leaves little incentive for voters in the center. in contrast, ahmadinejad has all the conservative base, almost the entire rural vote due to some successes with social programs, and segments of the center.
a close friend, an elderly intellectual and sometimes journalist in tehran, predicted a 30% take for moussavi a week and a half before the vote.
another person I know was stationed in a rural voting center, and about 80% of the votes counted there were for ahmedinajad. I'm not saying there wasn't any vote rigging. but from what I saw, the results are plausible as valid.
Subtect, thanks for some perspective from the other side.
i am no ahmadinejad fan but i think vp biden's statement, "there is an awful lot of questions about how this election was run," was insulting to majority iranian people's selection. we should shot the fuck up when iranians overwhelmingly elected their president.
the us always do that in other nations' elections if their favorite loses. probably as stated, there was some vote rigging but the results seem very convincing. you simply can't cheat in the scale of millions in a huge election like iran's.
we have a very embarrassing record in gore-bush election when few thousand questionably counted votes decided a president who got us into a big wars that are still ongoing.
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