A new poll by ISPA predicts the following results:
Ahmadinejad: 45%
Rafsanjani: 39.1%
Participation: 62.6% (definite);
74% (most probably)
In the first round, polls were highly unreliable indicators
Wired events are going on here. A boom in the news started earlier this week when Mehdi karrubi, one of the candidates (moderate semi-reformist) wrote a letter to the
Hossein Derakhshan (aka. Hoder) is a well-known Iranian blogger whose weblog Editor: Myself in Persian attracts thousands of Iranian readers all around the world every day. He also keeps
I totally disagree with the Western journalists who brand AhmadiNejad as a hard line conservative. He is, with no doubt, a total fundamentalist who is not even shameful of it:
SMS or mobile text messaging is playing a big role in Tehran these days. You can't have a mobile phone and not receive several text messages everyday. Jokes,
Things are really getting nasty here. After Karrubi's unbelievably blunt letter to the Supreme Leader, everything is suddenly changing. All non-fundamentalists are rallying behind Rafsanjani. Many are
So here it was. The robots of the supreme leader came in from behind and when nobody was expecting it, voted for Ahmadinejad, a populist conservative with a socialist economy.
Very upset. It is hard to write.
Everyone is in ultimate shock of these unprecedented, unbelievable and horrible results. When I voted yesterday, I would never imagine such outcome. Cannot
* "Iranian blogs":http://audio.theworld.org/wma.php?id=06176 (Listen "here":http://audio.theworld.org/wma.php?id=06176 , on Windows Media Player) - Katy Clark
Just came back from the Moin campaign's HQ. Everyone is sure that Moin is going to second round, butthe question is in the first or second place.
Big
9:00 p.m: The time for vote is extended till 10 p.m and now the noise signal on satellite TVs are gone so I can also track other
openDemocracy has been shorlisted for the New Statesman New Media Awards in the category of "Contribution to civic society". Other candidates are My Society super star Not Apathetic,
