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Old 06-17-2009, 08:55 PM   #70 (permalink)
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Default Re: Ahmadinejad wins election

Is there any real difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad?

Under the face value appearance of the two there is actually fundamentally little difference.
The main issues are the public way they present themselves, but rhetoric aside not much change.

Realise underlying all this is the fact real power still resides with the Office of the Supreme Leader, that is Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

So what is the real questions about?
Simply the way the votes were counted or not. The fact is that Ahmadinejad would have won but the big questions lies with the elegant % differences in all voting electorates.
It is this bad fumbling of counting that has to much extent caused problems.

The next question will now come down to who the scrape goat will be for the “bad” vote count. How will this effect the various institutions in Iran, ie The Office of the Supreme Leader, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Revolutionary Foundations and Guardian Council.

Other questions have been asked as to whether this was staged by the clerics to try to destabilise the IRGC as they saw Ahmadinejad in conjunction with the IRGC undermining their power

I suspect there is more under the surface that what is being presented.
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