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Originally Posted by MaKhassak  Ana3arabi and learned, what happened in Iran was a selection and not an election, one of the news agencies declared najad the winner with 65% of the votes before the polling stations were even closed.
A majority of iranians want reform, but you obviously care much more about how much money iran is sending you, than how good or bad this man is for his own country and people |
On the first count: Both sides claimed victory before the polls closed, and the final results weren't announced until the next morning in Iran. The Iranian media was consistantly updating results as the votes were being tallied. None of the news agencies gave a verdict on the polls before they closed - that simply isn't true. The only preliminary statistics that were mentioned were projections of the outcome based on exit polling. But as for the actual results, they were updating all night as the ballots were being tallied.
On the second: Apparently, from the poll results in this and previous elections, the support between reformists and conservatives in Iran is split about half/half in Iran's major cities, but in less dense urban areas, and in rural areas, conservatives are overwhelmingly popular. On aggregate, about 2/3 of the country is supportive of conservatives, and one third prefer reformists. So it isn't true that "a majority of Iranians" support reformists.
As for your charge about my personal preferences, I don't and never have supported Ahmadinejad. However, I don't have a slanted perception of things as you do, my views are sculpted by reference to reality and facts - not by prejudice based on personal like and dislike. Here's a fact for you: the position of President in Iran is relatively powerless when it comes to shaping foreign policy, and the President has no say in who gets what kind of support when it comes to strategic matters. If you understood this, you would realize that regardless of who won, whether Musavi or Ahmadinejad, it wouldn't make a difference in that regard.
In any case, I find it highly unlikely that you would know anything about how good or bad either candidate potentially was for their own country and people, because your rhetoric and attitude towards Iran is reflective of an individual whose views are shaped by slanted Western media characterization of Iran's politics and people.