It Happened! What we were all afraid of. Look who is leaving, Khatami, the intellectual that we were proud of, and see who is coming, a hard line conservative, who
It's ironic. Rafsanjani is facing the outcome of his own carelessly designed economic policies which also continued during Khatami's term.
Ahmadi Nejad represents the widening income
Before 12 May, when Tonight With Trevor McDonald broadcast its 10pm special “Mugging for Kicks”, a Google search for “happy slaps” reportedly produced 542 hits. It now returns 23,700.
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 leader
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 an
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 talking
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
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