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Iran in Political Convulsions
One employee of the Interior Ministry, which carried out the vote count, said the government had been preparing its fraud for weeks, purging anyone of doubtful loyalty and importing pliable staff members from around the country.
“They didn’t rig the vote,” claimed the man, who showed his ministry identification card but pleaded not to be named. “They didn’t even look at the vote. They just wrote the name and put the number in front of it.”
-- Bill Keller for The New York Times
To read Andrew Sullivan's blog is to get the impression that this apparent heist of the election for Ahmadinejad may be the prelude to a revolution. Either that or violent repression anyway.
“They didn’t rig the vote,” claimed the man, who showed his ministry identification card but pleaded not to be named. “They didn’t even look at the vote. They just wrote the name and put the number in front of it.”
-- Bill Keller for The New York Times
To read Andrew Sullivan's blog is to get the impression that this apparent heist of the election for Ahmadinejad may be the prelude to a revolution. Either that or violent repression anyway.