Comments on: Grim Portents from Iran’s Election Results

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:02:10 +0000

Juan Cole, who is wrong on everything most of the time, does point out several indications that the election was "stolen" after the Ayatollissimo K, who hates Moussavi, summarily told the Election Commission to change the results.

The fact that Moussavi, an Azeri with a strong base in Tabriz in northwest Azeri Iran, was defeated 2 to 1 in that city, a hotbed of hatred for Ahmadinnerjacket, speaks volumes for the fraudulent nature of the polls. Moussavi's arrest will spark more protests, and the shut-down of media [except for Twitter] means that the relatively open [Iran even has phone-in talk radio] backing and forthing of Iranian media will be bottled up.

Autocratic regimes, be they Communist like the PRC, hermit kingdoms like the NKoreans, or socialist one-party intelligence-run oligarchies like Syria, always discredit the will of the people. Cole and his commenters note the many discrepancies the last-minute command of the Ayatollissimo forced on the theocratic autocracy that Iran really is.

Iran is NOT an Islamic Republic!

By: Kynes

Kynes — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:59:28 +0000

Nothing was wrong with the election, most likely. Who were the vocal ones, the ones who were interviewed and surveyed by the media, the ones who went to rallies and made their voices heard? The rich and the burgeoning middle class, the former who mostly support Ahmadinejad and the latter Moussavi. Meanwhile, Ahmadinejad's idiotic populist policies in which he handed out money to the poor, often to no end, and even in the past few days giving out fruit to encourage votes earned him the support of the vast majority of Iran's poor, who make up most of Iran as a whole. With the massive turnout in the elections, it's no surprise that a fair amount of the poor turned in their votes, and Ahmadinejad came out with such a large majority.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:26:13 +0000

Good points. My money is on that the election was rigged. Just like the 2000 election here in the USA. Besides, Russia, China and N.Korea don't want to have to re-negotiate “the official Iranian position” with a new guy…lol..

That would shake up the alliance. Bullfighters have to have a common goal…it's our fault for becoming a bull really, when you boil it all down.

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:43:13 +0000

Let us use our imagination…

Let us imagine a modern fully equipped Chinese Army of half a million men occupying Canada, and for good measure let us imagine a second modern, well equipped Chinese Army of half a million man occupying Mexico and now let us have a presidential elections in the US, who do you think would win a rational politician or a paranoid right-winger?

By: Polimom, Too

Polimom, Too — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:33:51 +0000

The Disturbing Implications of Iran’s Election Results (Updated)…

Update follows the main post. ——- Over at The Moderate Voice, I’ve posted a longer analysis of yesterday’s election in Iran. In a nutshell, though — I don’t think there is a positive way to spin the landslide outcome for……