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Fishy vote count + Guile + Tactics: Why Ahmadinejad won
by Pepe Escobar on June 14, 2009

"Iran has been hit by a political "earthquake": against worldwide expectations, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won a landslide victory and a second term in the Iranian presidential election. At least that's what the Iranian regime says - to the disbelief of quite a few Iranians, not to mention the puzzlement of the world. Pepe Escobar argues this has been a mix of a very well organized state operation, and Ahmadinejad's real appeal to Iran's vast rural and working classes. The objective was to prevent a "threat" to the Iranian revolution principles from emerging, embodied by the "green revolution" of Mir-Hossein Mousavi's young supporters. The official margin of victory though, is simply not credible. The Iranian revolutionary system - embodied by top clerics and the Republican Guards - won. But will they get away with it?"

(7 minute video at link)



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