SeanT21:

CNN reported that it was TIED last night and when I woke up they announced that he had won. I smell something fishy!!

SeanT21:

CNN reported that it was TIED last night and when I woke up they announced that he had won. I smell something fishy!!

MrCrackles:

CNN mustav lied and reported unconfirmed info!
It may have been rigged but it was never tied!

Ikomi:

So what are you waiting for? Ad put the frying pan on, you get the fish.

Ikomi:

Thats a crude way to put it. 

I do not totally agree with you though, Mousavi knew wining wont be easy, but his aim was to keep Alhamadinajad within 50%, then he could call for a re-run, so a whole 68% victory, is to say the least suspicious

Túdor:

70% of the iranian population are young and were born after the islamic revolution. . . .most wanted change and if ahmedinajad were to win it wouldn't be by such a wide margin

RichyBlacK:

Still some buffoons are still ignorant of the fact that Iran is a democracy!

Western media tried to hype up the chances of Ahmadinejad's opponents because of their biased views against him. Nejad has won the election and the West must stop their foolish conspiracy theories and try to promote even a shred of democracy in barbaric Saudi-Arabia, their ally.

They shout democracy all the time, however, when the outcome does not suit their toddler-driven foreign policies (selecting a subservient goon), they oppose the elections and bring up foolish allegations of mass rigging.

tunku:

Afam lay off the pipe man. Yes we all know the hypocrisies of the West, but it in no way excuses the likes of Hamas, and Mugabe failing their own people.

JustGood:

You can count on the fact election was fair

I present two weekly shows for Iranian-owned Press TV.

As such, I know that, uniquely for a developing country, the Iranian broadcast media went to extraordinary lengths to be fair to all four presidential candidates.

tunku:


This author's impartiality is doubtful. Seriously the Iranian-Owned Presstv is the pravda of that country. If that is your evidence please take it back to the dustbin where it belongs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - [b]A poll of Iran's electorate three weeks before its election showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leading by a 2-to-1 ratio, greater than the announced results of the contested vote, the pollsters said on Monday.[/b]The poll showed Ahmadinejad's disputed victory, which has sparked riots and demonstrations since it was announced, might reflect the will of the people and "is not the product of widespread fraud," pollsters Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty said in a column in The Washington Post.

The election protests have marked the sharpest display of discontent in the Islamic republic in years as supporters of opposition candidate Mirhossein Mousavi alleged fraud in Friday's election.

"While Western news reports from Tehran in the days leading up to the voting portrayed an Iranian public enthusiastic about Ahmadinejad's principal opponent , our scientific sampling from across all 30 of Iran's provinces showed Ahmadinejad well ahead," the pollsters said.

Thirty-four percent of those polled said they would vote for Ahmadinejad while 14 percent preferred Mousavi and 27 percent were undecided.

The poll was conducted by their nonprofit organizations -- Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion and the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation -- from May 11 to 20 and funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

It was the third in a series of polls over the past two years and consisted of 1,001 telephone interviews in Farsi from a neighboring country, with a 3.1 percent margin of error.

"The breadth of Ahmadinejad's support was apparent in our pre-election survey," the pollsters said, rejecting arguments the poll might have reflected a fearful reluctance to give honest answers.

JustGood:

You can count on the fact election was fair

By George Galloway on Jun 15, 09 06:46 AM in

There are grounds for being surprised at the result of the Iranian election.

Even grounds for being disappointed.

But there are absolutely no grounds for the cats' chorus of criticism and allegations now emanating from some quarters after the cookie crumbled the wrong way.

I have been more closely interested than normal in this poll.

I present two weekly shows for Iranian-owned Press TV.

As such, I know that, uniquely for a developing country, the Iranian broadcast media went to extraordinary lengths to be fair to all four presidential candidates.

More than 85 per cent of the electors turned out to vote - compared with 35 per cent in our own elections recently. That's nearly 40million Xs on ballot papers.

This massive exercise took place without trouble of any kind - the polling stations were kept open longer than required to facilitate the huge lines of people outside.
Indeed, that's one of the reasons I discount the opposition complaints.

When a candidate is reduced to protesting that too MANY people were allowed to vote, you know he's in trouble.

The counting, too, was awesome. And, by the way, there were observers from all four camps present throughout these stages.

Although the western media largely did the usual thing - not straying far from their five-star hotels, talking to those who would happily talk to them and especially if they spoke English - it's clear they mistook the plusher parts of the capital for the country at large.[size=28pt] Mahmoud Ahmadinejad commands the loyalty of the poor, the working class and the rural voters whose development he has championed.[/size]

He lives like them, looks like them - he's never worn a suit since becoming president - and there's more of them than the English speaking more liberal elites now on the streets demonstrating.

It will soon fizzle out.

[size=28pt]This election almost mirrors the class composition of the recent polls in Venezuela. President Hugo Chavez has exactly the same friends in his country. And the same enemies.[/size]

I've said many times that Ahmadinejad's comments about the Holocaust are a disgrace. His rhetoric can be ugly and he does not play well in Peoria, the mid-west weather vane here in the US where I am at present.

But he is the president of an important country and we'll just have to accept it.

http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/georgegalloway/2009/06/you-can-count-on-the-fact-elec.html

Still some buffoons are still ignorant of the fact that Iran is a democracy!

Still some buffoons are still ignorant of the fact that Iran is a democracy!

ElRazur:

And bang! Restrictions now placed on foreign journalist from reporting the demonstration in Iran. Also a partial recount have been ordered.

I wonder what RichyBlack have to say to all of these?

tunku:


This author's impartiality is doubtful. Seriously the Iranian-Owned Presstv is the pravda of that country. If that is your evidence please take it back to the dustbin where it belongs.