Riots in Iran

[t3knomanser]

At this very moment, things are spiraling out of control in Iran. Frightened by a suddenly politically active youth bloc, the government did the only thing you can do if you're a repressive, theocratic, and generally vile government: it tampered with the election results. It didn't just tamper- "tampering" implies that they wanted to conceal their

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[manycolored]

I hope the Irani people are able to take back their country!

[lordindra]

Reading about it it was expected to be a close Mousavi win. Very close, there was a decent chance of it going to a runoff election.

All Ahmadenijad would have had to do was arrange for a narrow runoff win for himself. While this might have been a little surprising, it would be far less obvious that it was a fixed election. The election sounds like it was close enough that a sudden turnaround on this scale wouldn't be completely implausible.

But no, he has to have a historic landslide declared when only 19% of the vote was counted.