Hi bacon,
indeed, Ahmadinejad may very well have won fairly, but we'll never know for sure, and it hardly matters anymore now. As in July 1999, the leaders of the reformists have withdrawn from the conflict and the few thousand people really committed to a fight are left facing the police and paramilitaries on their own. Enough of them were beaten up and arrested Saturday night to put an end to it for another ten years, I expect.
What do you think this is all about? I think, Ahmadinejad upset some of the Mullah's constituencies in his appealing to the poor, and therefore they had to weaken him with these election fraud allegations and the ensuing unrest. They would have liked him gone altogether, but they can at least hope he's been reined in a little. Then there's the issue of Khamenei's successor, but I've no idea what role that played in these events, if any. And, of course, there's the desire of the West for regime change in Iran, which our MI6 men at the Beeb have tried so hard to promote in recent weeks.
Oh well! |
