Iranaian elections maybe not fixed after all shock!

[HillyHugger]

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22 829.htm

Is it likely that in reality the result is actually fair, just not the one the West wanted ?

[brionon]

Because a Mad Mullah says 'No Islam land could cheat'' ?
Well it must be fair then innit ?

[sqad617]

Interesting...........one poll........TV pictures of rioting in Iran...Ayattola called upon to slag off UK.

We will never know Hilly.

[paraffin]

Well, it was a poll which had a 50/50 chance of getting it right, that's all.

[VHG]

Must be terrible to live in a country where your leader has not been elected in a proper election.

Good job it could not happen here :-)

[Gromit]

The poll was independent, and was published before the election so it should be reliable.

I seem to remember Mrs Thatcher winning an election convincing and we had rioting in the streets. There will always be people who are aggrieved by a fair result.

Again taking Thatcher as an example, inner London was all Labour but out in the shires it was all conservative. Anyone testing the electoral climate in just London would have got entirely the wrong result. Likewise, journalists in Iran do not move very far from their luxury hotels in Tehran. It seems if they were to visit the countryside, they would get a fuller picture.

[brionon]

Steve 5 Just how has the West interfered ? Do you think NO one may comment on another country ? Do you think that if a Mullah described our elections as false thousands of Brits would demonstrate . What the F-- are you on about ?

[jno]

the west has interfered many times in Iran; in effect they made the late shah's father the ruler and this led ultimately to the Islamic revolution. They also took Saddam's side in the Iran-Iraq war, which thus blew up in their faces in two different ways: Iran didn't lose and Saddam didn't become a model citizen and ally. Really, it would be in the west's own interests to just keep out of it. All of their interventions have gone wrong.

[jno]

oh,a nd just to add that Gromit is right: there's a big city/country divide in Iran. Ahmadinejad is very popular with the rural poor, though he doesn't actually seem to have done much for them.

[brionon]

jno Sorry But the West hasn't Fixed the Elections in Iran. As much as some of you would like to believe that it has!