[lbo-talk] Juan Cole: preliminary reactions to the Iranian vote totals

[W. Kiernan]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Chris Doss<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> You guys are assuming that this vote fiddlin' was orchestrated from above, and therefore followed some rational plan. In Russia anyway, this stuff is usually local, organized by the local politicos. You arrange things so that your region votes for the person you think is going to win, because you want to be in favor with the central government. There is no country-wide plan.

That comment was conjectural anyway, assuming the election actually
was rigged, which I don't know. Everything I think I know about this
election business has all come via the American and British press,
whom I do know often put out "news" about that part of the world which
later turns out to be utter fiction.  The notion that the Iranian
theocracy is falling apart due to internal discontent over the
abrogation of Democracy is the kind of wishful thinking they're
especially fond of.

yrs wdk