> > 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