“Here is my country,” a young woman said to me, voice breaking. “This is a coup. I could have worked in Europe but I came back for my people.” And she, too, sobbed.
Are we still not allowed to use for example '@stopahmadi' or '@persiankivi'? Cause I got yelled at last night when I retweeted something. Are we still supposed to write 'RT in Iran'?
And I wrote this on my journal, and I think it bears repeating, because I havent seen any blogs to such comparisons,
Interior Ministry releases provincial vote countThis means that they ARE getting concerned and are now trying to cover their tracks. Of course, the people in charge are really mishandling this fraud. While initially it might appease certain people, because numbers do always seem impressive, I think this makes it easier to prove it there were concerns over the results. It just makes it easy to compare these numbers with 2005 numbers. I'm mainly comparing Karoubi & Ahmedinijad because it is easier to compare them since they were both candidates. A quick summary, in 2005, the election went to second round as no one got above 50% votes In 2005, Ahmedinijad's first round votes were 20%, and Karoubi was 18%. He didn't go to the second round, because Rafsanjani was 22%. This time it didnt even go to the second round, because Ahmadinijad got 62% while Karoubi got LESS THAN 1%! I cant imagine so much change in a mere 4 years.
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I don't remember precisely what happened, but this all reminds me of the 2000/04 election where there were more Republican votes than there were people in the entire county or something...like very obviously fixed voting results. Argh I wish I could remember what it was!
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-irans-day-of-destiny-1706010.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/opinion/15iht-edcohen.html
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“Here is my country,” a young woman said to me, voice breaking. “This is a coup. I could have worked in Europe but I came back for my people.” And she, too, sobbed.
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RT @chrislhayes To all the labor haters out there; wherever there's an authoritarian regime, labor is fighting it. http://bit.ly/11QkiA
RT @jimsciuttoABC: #iranelection Iran has banned all foreign journalists from reporting on the sts.
RT @jryanlaw PLEASE READ! Please read this before you mindlessly retweet Iran-related tweets - http://bit.ly/9NfTP
If you are on Twitter, I definitely recommend reading the last one.
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Interior Ministry releases provincial vote countThis means that they ARE getting concerned and are now trying to cover their tracks. Of course, the people in charge are really mishandling this fraud. While initially it might appease certain people, because numbers do always seem impressive, I think this makes it easier to prove it there were concerns over the results. It just makes it easy to compare these numbers with 2005 numbers. I'm mainly comparing Karoubi & Ahmedinijad because it is easier to compare them since they were both candidates. A quick summary, in 2005, the election went to second round as no one got above 50% votes In 2005, Ahmedinijad's first round votes were 20%, and Karoubi was 18%. He didn't go to the second round, because Rafsanjani was 22%. This time it didnt even go to the second round, because Ahmadinijad got 62% while Karoubi got LESS THAN 1%! I cant imagine so much change in a mere 4 years. ( ... )
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*goes on an 'election fraud" wiki spree*
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8103577.stm
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