I think “This shit done been stoled” would also be acceptable.

Uny demucrecy is oonly vurt vhet its cunsteetooents meke-a ooff it, und perheps zee Iruneeun peuple-a dun’t hefe-a mooch durect ixpereeence-a ooff ectooel demucrecy, su zeey ere-a less coolpeble-a thun Emereecuns, vhu du.
Bork Bork Bork!

The President of the Committee of Election Monitoring: The Election is Invalid

Hojjat-ol-Eslam Yali Akbar Mohteshami Pour officially requested that the Guardian Council to cancel this election and schedule a new election balanced and moderated democratically with the widespread and national presence of the people.

http://niacblog.wordpress.com/

Also see:
http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/13/alerts-from-tehran/ for video and updates

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/06/12/iran_elections_update

Cole’s evidence is equally flimsy. As in, he doesn’t present any. How does he know A. isn’t popular in poor neighborhoods of Tehran? How does he know Azeris would prefer Mousawhi?

Critical Montages has results of a (Western) poll some time before the elections that are instructive, including on the issue of votes by Azeris and other ethnic minorities.

This shit was stolden.

As an English teacher, I need to point out that the correct form here would be, “This shit was done stoled.”

I thought Iran was a Islamofascist dictatorship where disagreeing with the Glorious Leader in the slightest brought swift death!

And now you tell me there’s protests there? Huh.

It’s like the Muslophobe wingnuts were lying to me…

I have to suspect that the objective realities will (in the medium-to-long run) be more important than the short-term election. The U.S. is still a global power, but tends to overestimate its global influence; Iran is a regional power, and quite likely to overestimate its regional influence once (if) the U.S. finally gives up on its impossible dreams on either side of — not to mention within — Iran. And so the merry dance goes on.

Meanwhile, the oppressed have their role to play. It’s a non-speaking part, but vital.

Yes, but symbols do matter.

If Mousavi had won the election, Obama would have gotten a boost in his efforts to engage with Iran. Now I’m not sure he’ll be able to do so — after all, the administration was unable to combat domestic disapproval of its Gitmo plans — what makes you think they’ll have anymore success with Mahmoud back in power?

…all those neocon idiots should be forced to read that book and then perhaps they’d see that how they’ve responded to Iran has done more to KEEP Ahmadninawhatever popular and in power than he could have ever achieved on his own.

I think if you’ll re-read the quotes from Elliot Abrams and Daniel ‘Crack’ Pipes above, they know this and they like this. They want Ahmadinejad in power.

I never thought for one moment that the Bush Jr. regime didn’t know exactly what it was doing when if flew the big middle fingers to Khamenei.

Which is not to forget the above points, that the President is not the determiner of policy in Iran.

Yes, he is loved by the rural poor (hence his sartorial choices) and yes, the elites are positive he has no real support and everyone wants him gone. The majority of Iranians are too young to have seen pre-revolutionary Iran, and are quite proficient with the intertubes; these 2 points are rapidly growing in political importance, and while Mr A may or may not have won this election, the younger population is ready to leave his world behind. They don’t want any help from our neocon crazies in the process though; an attack on Iran will bring to fore the extremely strong nationalist and patriotic pride of a people who are much stronger about that stuff than we are, so Pipes and Krystal’s fantasies will just return the situation to Death to America days. Again.

Cid — yeah I thought of that. At the same time, though, I always understood that Chavez was pretty well revered by the country’s poor. With Ahmadinejad, there seemed to be much more popular discontent.

It’s not a perfect parallel, I was mainly focusing on the example of an elite-sustained bubble which collapsed upon results.

AMLO didn’t stop, either. Whether it’s done much or not, he turned his post-electoral protests into a series of nation-wide organizing campaigns based on his asserting the Presidency of the “Legitimate Government” of Mexico but without actual state-threatening claiming of an exile government. He has used his post-election position to go around the country to try to highlight grassroots concerns while still trying to play his political cards against his rivals in his own party.

With AMLO it was ‘SHUT UP LOOSER HA HA!’ even when he was going to court to challenge ballot counting activities.

Let’s see how the elite U.S. media commentariat react to Mousavi’s refusal to cede to this opponent.

Veiled PENIS reference!