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Iranian Election Thread

JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
edited June 2009 in A Moving Train
I looked for a thread and didn't see one. Is anyone following this?

Here is something that might be of use if you care:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cy ... for-i.html

I do feel the U.S. mainly has the role of watching, staying out of it, but I'd like to see a fair election take place.

The Iranian government can't completely shut down documentation of the events despite banning foreign media, because everyone can take pictures and twitter.
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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    hard to say ... wonder if they used diebold machines there ... :|

    my gut reaction is that these elections were indeed fair
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    polaris_x wrote:
    hard to say ... wonder if they used diebold machines there ... :|

    my gut reaction is that these elections were indeed fair

    Interesting this could be true, though they were able to count several million votes in 2 hours after the election by HAND!

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  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    g under p wrote:
    polaris_x wrote:
    hard to say ... wonder if they used diebold machines there ... :|

    my gut reaction is that these elections were indeed fair

    Interesting this could be true, though they were able to count several million votes in 2 hours after the election by HAND!

    Peace

    over how many polling stations tho? ... although i'm no expert - the opposition had the support of the urban and young crowd ... i'm pretty sure the old-timers still outnumber that demographic by far ...
  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06162009.html
  • polaris_xpolaris_x Posts: 13,559
    _outlaw wrote:
    http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06162009.html

    well ... that's how they fucked iran way back when - but you can't really talk about stuff that happened over 50 years ago here ... my gut feeling is that if this was seen as election fraud - we would have mass protests around the country - not just in tehran ...
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    JaneNY wrote:
    I looked for a thread and didn't see one. Is anyone following this?

    Here is something that might be of use if you care:
    http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/cy ... for-i.html

    I do feel the U.S. mainly has the role of watching, staying out of it, but I'd like to see a fair election take place.

    The Iranian government can't completely shut down documentation of the events despite banning foreign media, because everyone can take pictures and twitter.

    I agree with Obama's "wait and see" approach. Imagine if Iran would have attempted to intervene in the 2000 election....it would have been laugh at...
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