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Unrest in Iran
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Posted June 24, 2009
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While the US media, after sitting on its hands for the 2000 and 2004 US Presidential elections, has suddenly discovered the issue of election integrity, many important facts are being left out of the coverage - for example:
The incumbent president won the election with over 60% of the vote;
There were more than 14 people working at, and monitoring, each of some 40,000 election stations, with 11 of the 14 elected locally, who would have to be involved in any election fraud of the magnitude alleged in the press; and
In nationally televised debates before the election, the primary issue between the incumbent and the leading challenger was the privatization of the economy, which the man now crying foul over the result wanted to hasten and expand, while the platform and record of the current leader was an expanded social safety net, the first affordable housing in Iranian history, and growth of the public sector in general.
This is an interview with Simin Royanian, an Iranian scholar from the D.C. area, and Ardeshir and Ellie Ommani of Wespac in White Plains,NY. They seek to bring some balance - and some facts - to the discussion about Iran which has saturated American media.
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- iran_election,
- iran,
- ahmadinejad
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