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| Indecision 2009 - Ahmadinejad Rally in Iran | ||||
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Don't know how The Daily Show's Jason Jones is going to make it out of this one. The rally he covered was before the election. At the rally after the election was marred by violence in the wake of what many are considering to be a fixed election. Election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with 62.6 percent of the vote and his nearest rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, with 33.8 percent. The turnout was at 85 percent. And while Mousavi has lodged a complaint with the Guardian Council, U.S. Vice-president Joe Biden has expressed doubts over the election results as well. Ahmadinejad was declared victor barely an hour after the polls closed. With 40 million votes to count, it would have taken two hours to count just 5 million of those votes. It didn't matter because Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has already rubberstamped the election results.
Ahmadinejad likened the election to a soccer match. But at least a soccer match has independent referees to adjudicate the game. Independent observers were banned from an election that Moussavi was expected to win. Special forces units in Tehran have been chasing down protesters and there seems to have been a wave of arrests of opposition leaders following the elections. With the rioting that has broken out in the wake of Ahmadinejad's reelection, maybe Jon Stewart should have sent Rob Riggle instead.
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