Polls have never been manipulated? Or wrong? Or weighted? Or just plain inaccurate? You're a very trusting soul.
More to the point I would look at the fact that multiple polls before the election ran the gamut from a landslide in one direction to the other. The most damning sign in my mind is the reports of how uniform the vote for Ahmadinijad was according to official tallys. Things like him beating his opponents by a wide margin in their home towns, a similar proportion of the vote going to candidates in both major cities and rural areas.
To be honest, he didn't actually say he believed it. He just said it is interesting. And it is. I still don't trust Iranian elections, though. And I'm not at all convinced that, even if the results are overturned, the outcome will be all that much better for Iran, or for Iran's relations with the West.
Which multiple polls? While again emphasising that I don't necessarily believe it's result, since some are obviously incapable of processing any information that doesn't conform with their prejudices, I had heard that this was the only scientific poll conducted there in some time.
Rigging an election by a close margin is tricky. Just ask the Democratic party. Of the 2000 Presidential race, the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial race, and the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, their record hasn't exactly been stellar. If you're going to rig an election, you want to do it by enough of a margin in the places you control to avoid it being tied up and contested.
Come on Iranian revolutionaries! Get rid of Ahmadinijad and put in place a leader that will allow Persian hotties to dispense with their burqa's.
It doesn't have to be a razor sharp margin but certainly giving ones self 2/3 of all the votes is going to far.
The Iranians should stop complaining, Commie George Galloway gives the election results two thumbs up!
Robert Fisk says that documents have surfaced from last week from IRans interior ministry confirming the fraud, although there are doubts as to whether these are genuine.
A member of the diplomatic service once said that the only place Britain is still a superpower is in Iran. It comes from the days of British and American involvement in the removal of the democratic Mossadegh goverment and the re-installation of the Shah. It's known by the educated Iranians as the "My Uncle Napolean" syndrome, after a tounge in cheek Iranian tv show in the 70s about a chap who thought the British were onvolved in everything that went wrong. Quite simply its the usually Mugabe-esque bullshit we usually see, unfortunately though, like Zimbabwe, some of the poor ill-educated Iranians still buy into it.
Four pages of threads and no pics of hot protesters in burqas? Frankly I expected better out of you folks. Wordforge has lost something.
Tomorrow is what it all comes down to - it's all been building to that. The Supreme Ayatollah (or whatever he calls himself) has demanded an end to protest, but it's still going to go ahead. I wouldn't be surprised if there's bloodshed.
Some epic stuff... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oM6l9PO6Yo That's tonight from the buildings. A translation of the woman's commentary from someone on youtube...
That's a couple of nice hotties on those pics (from what we can tell). It's a damn shame they get treated like cattle.
A lot of my friends are Westernized Persian girls... and they are all fine as hell, almost without exception. They love to party and drink too!
Irony. From one of my online classes today: (2) Cause an overreaction by the government. This is one of the basic precepts of militaristic revolutionary strategies such as those described by Castro, Guevara, and Marighella. This overreaction to terrorist activities may result in oppressive and restrictive population control measures, such as instituting special antiterrorist laws that allow searches without warrants, detention of citizens without charges, curfews, and travel restrictions. The people see these measures as violations of their rights, and they also lend an element of legitimacy to the grievances of the movement, creating an atmosphere more sympathetic to the terrorists' cause. NOTE, I am not saying that the pro-Democracy activists are terrorists, I just found the connection ironic. Possibly more a statement on the class than the situation.
Iranian girls are white chicks, but just far enough removed from Europeans to be exotic. [?=No nudity, but perhaps NSFW] [/?]
http://iranriggedelect.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-will-participate-in-demonstration.html It's going to be an important day no matter what happens.
Actually, funny you should say this, but the women in Tehran are absolutely stunning. Oh, and they're not wearing burqas.The all over black is a chador and the head scarf is a russari (persian version of hijab).
Russari's make a woman ultra milf. Woman tend to slut it up these days too th epoint it loses it affect.
