On 18 août 06, at 07:58, uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Hamas got about 45% of the popular vote, less
>>
>> than George W did in 2000 and 2004.
>
> Ahmadinejad got only 19.50% of the total votes polled in the first
> round in last year's elections in Iran. A week later in the second
> round, his vote share went upto 62%. It's not clear how much he
> owed his second round vote to rigging and intimidation by the clergy.
Or disgust for neo-liberal economics ? Or anger at the west that was pressuring Iran already ?
Jean-Christophe