News from Iran? Good? Bad? Who knows?

[Hansmeister]

That said, let's hope that their voting isn't for naught.

Hmm, Iranians get to choose between one nutty extremist and one slightly less nutty extremist.  And regardless who wins they will have no real power since that is held by the Ayatollahs.  That this election is for nothing is a foregone conclusion.

Alas, the usual idiots in the west will delude themselves into thinking that there is a possibility of a political solution if Achmedinejad loses.

Achmedinejad winning is actually the preferable outcome, at least it would prevent the publishing of hundreds of op-eds by the usually brain-dead foreign policy experts about how a diplomatic solution is now suddenly possible.  As well as the inevitable denouncations of Israel after they bomb Iran.

[Weatherman]

CNN just mentioned that the Iranian govt said that Ahmi has received 69% of the 5 million votes counted so far..

[Valmy]

Achmedinejad winning is actually the preferable outcome, at least it would prevent the publishing of hundreds of op-eds by the usually brain-dead foreign policy experts about how a diplomatic solution is now suddenly possible.

I completely agree with you.

[Jaron]

I disagree. Hans has been consistently wrong about foreign policy his entire posting history and I see no reason for him to break form now.

[garbon]

Hmm, Iranians get to choose between one nutty extremist and one slightly less nutty extremist.  And regardless who wins they will have no real power since that is held by the Ayatollahs.  That this election is for nothing is a foregone conclusion.

It would be change in the right direction, even if irrelevant change.

[Savonarola]

It would be change in the right direction, even if irrelevant change.

Mousavi really is Iran's Obama.

[garbon]

Mousavi really is Iran's Obama.

I'd like it to be known that you said it, not me.

[Valmy]

It would be change in the right direction, even if irrelevant change.

Mousavi really is Iran's Obama.

Good one.

[Queequeg]

CNN just mentioned that the Iranian govt said that Ahmi has received 69% of the 5 million votes counted so far..

The government is going to have a really hard time containing Mousavi's voters if that is true.  I doubt that even Mousavi could, this just smells really fishy.

[Josephus]

You know that the president has no real power right?

Any parliamentary or presidential vote can be vetoed by the Supreme Islamic Council.

They're even less democratic there, than America.

[jimmy olsen]

They're even less democratic there, than America.

[Admiral Yi]

Don't be such a muffin Timmy.

[jimmy olsen]

Don't be such a muffin Timmy.

Muffin? I prefer scones.

[Weatherman]

And here comes Ami with the steal:

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's interior ministry said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took nearly 70 percent of the early votes counted, but his pro-reform rival countered that he was the clear victor and warned of possible vote fraud in the election.


The dispute rose up even before polls closed early Saturday, heightening tensions across the capital where emotions have been running at a fever pitch. Mir Hossein Mousavi, the reformist candidate, suggested he might challenge the results.

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1085009

[garbon]

Which would  be the same article that says the figure is from 10 million of the cast votes and guesses that upwards of 40 million people voted...