[lbo-talk] On Islamic radicalism and the left by Don Hamerquist

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Fri Aug 18 07:10:13 PDT 2006


Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:


> > 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 ?

Ahmadinejad's votes went up from 19.5% to 62% _in one week_ between two rounds. What happened in that week that produced so much disgust or anger to more than triple his share of votes?

Ulhas



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