But I thought this Juan Cole post from over the weekend was worth looking at. It's a list of suspicious stuff about the big-show election in Iran. Notable:
1. It is claimed that Ahmadinejad won the city of Tabriz with 57%. His main opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is an Azeri from Azerbaijan province, of which Tabriz is the capital. Mousavi, according to such polls as exist in Iran and widespread anecdotal evidence, did better in cities and is popular in Azerbaijan. Certainly, his rallies there were very well attended. So for an Azeri urban center to go so heavily for Ahmadinejad just makes no sense. In past elections, Azeris voted disproportionately for even minor presidential candidates who hailed from that province.
Ahmedinejad should have hired James Baker as his campaign chair. He knows how to do this stuff.
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Ooooh, that sounds painful. Not quite as painful as the spurious election results but nasty just the same.
It was, rather, and I still don't really know what caused it. But when I finally got through to see the doctor (Physician's assistant really, but she could write scrips) I got good treatment. She novacaned my thumb so it felt like your lips and tongue before you get dental work done. I barely felt the tetanus shot the nurse gave me afterwards.
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