Much of Ahmadinejad's support is urban. After all he was mayor of Tehran. The elected city council in Tehran are all conservatives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Council_of_Tehran
All the members of the current council are conservatives belonging to the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran (Abadgaran) and are close to the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But it is widely believed that none of them would be chosen as members of his cabinet, because such an act would lead to the succession of Mostafa Tajzadeh, a reformist, to the council.
This is after the 2007 election.
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--- On Sat, 6/27/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim)
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 3:54 PM
>
> 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
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