On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> (Via Louis Proyect's list. Unfortunately, there's a lack of this
> kind of
> first-hand English-language reporting to inform opinion on both
> sides of the
> issue)
>
> URL: http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/21813
> Iran's Rural Vote and Election Fraud
> June 27, 2009
> By Eric Hooglund
>
> I just heard a CNN reporter in Tehran say that Ahmadinejad's support
> base was rural. Is it possible that rural Iran, where less than 35
> percent of the country's population lives, provided Ahmadinejad the 63
> percent of the vote he claims to have won? That would contradict my
> own
> research in Iran's villages over the past 30 years
A point made in the Chatham House report, by the way.
Doug