Ahmadinejad Won. Get Over it.

[cactusflower]

The 10% recount, conducted openly and with opposition witnesses, has confirmed Ahmadinejad’s resounding win in the Iranian Presidential elections.

Report on the recount.

Guardian Council confirms Ahmadinejad winner of Iran elections – The CNN Wire - CNN.com Blogs

A number of well informed commentators have been calling it a win for Ahmadinejad since the day of the elections. Other commentators have pointed to the campaign by the Rafsanjani-Mousavi camp to discredit the election even before it was held. Iranian elections in fact have a reputation for being comparatively well run.

Before the elections, an Ahmadinejad win was assumed to be inevitable: in the days running up to the vote rumours began to circulate of a surprise Mousavi surge (Ganley campaign, anyone?). This was in spite of the fact that Mousavi was not that well known and that he was agreed to have had his ass whupped in the Presidential tv debates.

Wishful thinking from Tehran | Abbas Barzegar | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Rivals both claim victory in Iran's election - World News - SINA English

US Policy in Iran - Ahmadinejad vs Moussavi on Talks with America - Esquire

Iran’s previous reputation was that it runs reasonably free and fair elections. There was a massive voter turnout Video of queues to vote:

Mass turnout in Iran's election |JPost.com Video

The election process: CBC gives a good report on the election itself
Ahmadinejad has wide lead over rival, Interior Ministry says

Commentators who explain why they think Ahmadinejad won:

“Ahmadinejad won. Get over it. The only scientific poll predicted his win”
Ahmadinejad won. Get over it - Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett - POLITICO.com

A good analysis of the economic and social basis for Ahmadinejad’s win

An Insight into Iran Election Protests !

This US based Iranian blogger explains Rafsanjani’s role in the electiosns and posits a consistent scheme by the Mousavi camp to portray the election as fixed from before the time polling started.

Mondoweiss: Mohammad of Vancouver: Tehran is burning, and who is fueling the fires?

A view from Africa – there have been similar experiences of attempts to discredits elections all over the world

Iran Election: What if Ahmadinejad Did In Fact Win?

This Foreign Policy blog says - Result OK
Based on Terror Free Tomorrow Poll, Ahmadinejad Victory Was Expected | Just Foreign Policy

Ahamdinejad won.

[fergalr]

Yeah. Get over it, Neda. Ahmadinejad won.

Neda?

Oh, yeah. They murdered her.

[Jock_the_Waster]

Yeah. Get over it, Neda. Ahmadinejad won.

Neda?

Oh, yeah. They murdered her.

they?

[cactusflower]

Yeah. Get over it, Neda. Ahmadinejad won.

Neda?

Oh, yeah. They murdered her.

Yes, they ?

And what does this add to whether of not Ahmadinejad won the election?

[USER1234]

They as in the goverment forces!!

& The recount was a farse, they rigged the election, and before it could be fair they need a new unrigged election!!!!

So Ahmadinejad did not win the election, he stole the election!!!!

[fergalr]

Cactusflower, if someone posted a thread like this eight years ago with "Bush won. Get over it" as the title, I bet you'd be up in arms.

[Interista]

Let's call time on the use of an innocent woman's tragic death for political purposes.

[cactusflower]

Cactusflower, if someone posted a thread like this eight years ago with "Bush won. Get over it" as the title, I bet you'd be up in arms.

I would have argued the case based on information on the election process and polls, not gratuitously thrown in a photograph of a dead woman killed after the poll was finished.

Do you have any evidence that either the original poll and the recount were fixed?

[cactusflower]

They as in the goverment forces!!

& The recount was a farse, they rigged the election, and before it could be fair they need a new unrigged election!!!!

So Ahmadinejad did not win the election, he stole the election!!!!

Have you got any evidence for any of these assertions ?

[fergalr]

Do you have any evidence that either the original poll and the recount were fixed?

http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/files...ection0609.pdf