swampland.blogs.time.com - 6/12/2009
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(I'm posting this for Joe Klein, who emails it in from Tehran:)
I've just returned from a day of poll-watching in various Tehran neighborhoods. The lines are long...but I'm worried that the votes might not be counted correctly. In fact, we may be headed for a government-rigged Palm Beach ...
reuters.com - 6/15/2009
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reuters.com —
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of supporters
of defeated presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi gathered for a...
rally in downtown Tehran on Monday, defying an Interior Ministry ban, a Reuters witness said. "The street is fully packed," the ...
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Big crowd turns out for pro-Mousavi rally in Tehran
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breitbart.com - 6/19/2009
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breitbart.com —
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Tehran residents are climbing
to their roofs and crying "God is Great!" in...
open defiance of Iran's supreme leader. The late-night cries of "Allahu Akbar!" and "Death to the Dictator!" throughout Tehran Friday are a direct ...
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'God is Great' echoes throughout Tehran
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A Clusterfuck In Iran
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Joe Klein is worried about the very confusing ballots:
The candidates are listed by name and by number...and also by code.
You vote by writing down the candidate's name and then his...what?
Number...or code? No one is quite sure. The leading reformer,
Mir-Hussein Moussavi, has the number 4 and the code 777. Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has the number 1 and the code 444. So the question arises:
If you vote for Moussavi and list his number as 4...have you actually
voted for Ahmadinejad? And why on earth have they devised such a
complicated ballot in the first ...
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