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Originally Posted by Thor
Both camps have declared victory, should be an interesting week ahead.
What a lot of people fail to realize is that 2/3 of Irans population is young people, under 30. Those people are mainly friendly to the west, want equal rights for women, less religious rules and more freedoms.
This election does matter, the current guy has been a thorn in the side of the world, the new guy sounds more reasonable.
We should take what we can get.
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Not really surprising for early results with Ahmadinejad in the lead: the rural areas with far less people will be reporting first, and these tend to lean toward Ahmadinejad. It'll take time for the urban votes to get counted, and this is where you'd expect to see things swing.