I don't think anyone anticipated this level of fraudulence
This was a selection, not an election
At least authoritarian regimes like Syria and Egypt
have no democratic pretences
Ayatollah Khamenei wasn't ever going to let Ahmadinejad lose
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Why would oil producers want to inflame geopolitical tensions
when oil prices fall?
What could happen if a generation of underemployed, underpaid
educated and indebted young adults
become disillusioned by their elders’ financial mismanagement
and seek to identify and punish those responsible?
The two-to-one margin for Ahmadinejad
may well appear to millions of Iranians
as bizarre and unlikely
and meant to avoid a run-off he might lose
If that's what millions of voters think
especially young voters in this very young country
(70 percent of the population is under age 30)
there could well be large demonstrations
Is dissent the highest form of patriotism?
Have the educated underemployed
instigated most rebellions?
What is surprising is his share of the vote
64 percent according to some estimates
Another Ahmadinejad term
may translate into continued social and political repression
economic mismanagement
and more assertive foreign policies
especially on the nuclear program
Have the powerless
created symbols for the powerful to destroy
to create dissent
by turning apathy into perceived oppression?
It is difficult to feel comfortable that this occurred
without any cheating
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It's just nonsense ...
If it was a genuine election landslide
surely people should be out on the streets in euphoria ...
The potential for unrest is high
The scale of the election victory
…means he must have won big in the cities
That is simply not borne out by what people were saying
Does nonviolent civil disobedience
only work in a country with a free press?
Can a nonviolent movement
survive against an information censoring violent opponent?
The hardliners in the regime
seem to have exercised all their levers of power
to keep Ahmadinejad in place
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