From The Threat Level/Wired News:
It was a Dewey-Truman upset all over again, but without the picture-worthy banner headline.
High on a wave of support from Iranian youth, reformist candidate Mir Hussein Moussavi was ready to claim victory in Iran’s presidential election last Friday. But before the night was over, he’d been deposed by official results reporting that incumbent hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won instead … and by a huge margin.
Despite the fact that Iran uses paper ballots nationwide that have to be counted by hand, only two hours after the polls closed the state-run news agency was already claiming that Ahmadinejad won 69 percent of the vote to Moussavi’s 28 percent.
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My Comment: With an absence of observers on the ground, we must rely on the Iranian Government for what actually happened during the counting. Should we trust the Iranian Government .... maybe some will, but I do not.
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