mrstickball on 20 June 2009
| Rath said: America can't interfere obviously, Obama was at least smart enough to spot that. If America interfered a lot of the country would be forced to unite behind the hardliners in an anti-American response which would cause this entire thing to fail. America can't be seen to be meddling in Iran. Also to the people doubting the ability of the protestors to remove the government - this is fairly similar in many ways to the 1979 revolution that overthrew the Shah and he had extensive western backing. The people in Iran do have the ability to overthrow the government if they have the motivation to do so. Also the vote rigging isn't certain, certainly the reaction of the Iranian government looks organised in advance and the way the results came out was distinctly odd, but there is no definitive proof that rigging occured. Ahmadinejad is afterall very popular amongst the rural population. @Troll. I'm pretty sure you have the people around the wrong way. Mousavi isn't 'in', he is the moderate in opposition to the hardliners currently in government. |
Here's a nice little reason as to why it's rigged. Here's a chart based on the 'live results' of the election being rigged, and the number of votes counted, and ratios for each candidate:
Notice the lack of deviation? Why were electroncis & news reports blocked during election day from conducting proper exit polls? Why were there 30 polling sites with >100% of voter turnout? What about the other 200 that had >95%? How did Ahmadinejad pull ahead of Mousavi when Mousavi was winning 2:1 by polls just before the election?
There are plenty of irregularities - all of which make the issues and irregularities of the 2000 US election look like a joke.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
