Ahmadinejad won; get over it
aljazeera
20-Jun-2009 (one comment)

Without any evidence, many U.S. politicians and “Iran experts” have dismissed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s reelection Friday, with 62.6 percent of the vote, as fraud. ? They ignore the fact that Ahmadinejad’s 62.6 percent of the vote in this year’s election is essentially the same as the 61.69 percent he received in the final count of the 2005 presidential election, when he trounced former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The shock of the “Iran experts” over Friday’s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking.

 

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rosie is roxy is roshan

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:38 AM PDT

This has been up all day and I wasn't even sure I should post it yet but, in view of the Fisk article posted onsoite this afternoon below, I have. What strikes me as particularly newsworthy even more than the content itself is that it was the only item up until late afternoon EST on Iran. so you can see aljazeerahas a very different spin on things--not only on what is true but on what is important.

More and more it boggles the mind. For instance the argument is given that the percentage AA won byv s the same as last election's. Then on the thread (replete btw with completely irrelevant anti-Zionist rants) someone argues that that in itself is suspect. Then there is a video embedded about the Terror Free Tomorrow poll-the one from May whiich has been widely circulated as predicting the results--but it actually shows that poll is full of ambiguities.

I do think the Azeri question is interesting here. It says AN spoke some Azeri in his speeches and it is the fist time anyone I read mentioned that Khamenei is Azeri too.

And finally,I have a headache.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/06/20/robert-fisk-s-world-tehran-fantasy-and-reality-make-uneasy-bedfellows

See toward end of Fisk article.



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