Posted on 06/13/2009 5:30:49 PM PDT by newbie2008
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t is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital. Mousavi, according to such polls as exist in Iran and widespread anecdotal evidence, did better in cities and is popular in Azerbaijan. Certainly, his rallies there were very well attended. So for an Azeri urban center to go so heavily for Ahmadinejad just makes no sense. In past elections, Azeris voted disproportionately for even minor presidential candidates who hailed from that province. #
Ahmadinejad is claimed to have taken Tehran by over 50%. Again, he is not popular in the cities, even, as he claims, in the poor neighborhoods, in part because his policies have produced high inflation and high unemployment. That he should have won Tehran is so unlikely as to raise real questions about these numbers. #
It is claimed that cleric Mehdi Karoubi, the other reformist candidate, received 320,000 votes, and that he did poorly in Iran's western provinces, even losing in Luristan. He is a Lur and is popular in the west, including in Kurdistan. Karoubi received 17 percent of the vote in the first round of presidential elections in 2005. While it is possible that his support has substantially declined since then, it is hard to believe that he would get less than one percent of the vote. Moreover, he should have at least done well in the west, which he did not.
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Forget it under Obama. He is a devout Muslim and is anti-US. So, anyone that hates us in Obama’s friend.
I wish them well, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
He bowed before the Saudi king, how much more proof that this idiot is Mooslum?
If the Iranians want Free and Fair Elections all they need to do is look next door to the Success of the Freedom and Liberty that GEORGE W BUSH brought to their neighbor.
Real Hope and Change takes real Men and real commitment and Real leadership not that Fake Crap that Obama is always Taling about but never acting on.
Iran’s problem, not ours.
Why don't we get rid of our own first?
BTW...I can't get your link to work.
should be typepad
I am sure Israel is slipping in special forces during the chaos..
I seriously doubt it matters one way or the other.
The fraud is SO obvious that one almost expects Jimmy Carter to certify the results any minute now.
Another cooked election . . . Godspeed, freedom loving Iranians. Many Americans are pulling for you even if the resident of the White House isn’t.
Bless them - they thought they were voting in an honest election.
A few small arms in the right places would seem to be a much smarter investment than a full-on military invasion, which is the inevitable requirement given enough time.
Opportunities like this don’t happen every day.
Welcome to typepd.com
I don't see any article
Fvck Iran. We need to overthrow OUR corrupt regime.
He did already.
his title not mine, I’m just pointing out the voting irregularities
Indeed.
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