The coverage of the Iranian elections has fascinated me. Most of the reporting I’ve read seems based on very little information. I don’t know that anyone really expected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to lose this election, though the late groundswell of support for his opponent, Mir Hussein Moussavi, seems to have suprised a lot of Iran-watchers. Most of the reporting I’ve seen was from journalists based in Tehran, and it seems there that youth were very active in supportinve Moussavi. This election featured even featured a televised debate, in which Admadinejad was very aggressive in attacking his opponent. It seems that the nickname for this election is the “green tsunami.”
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