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    #IranElection

    It's all kicking off. Gunshots heard and tear gas being used at Iran rally BBC have confirmed reports of firing into crowd.

    Earlier, sources stated Iranian guard had equipped with live ammunition.

    No article on the Beeb site just yet. Follow #IranElection for the chatter.

    Edit: Hang on, they've just edited this page

    #2
    Could almost be Gordon Brown's 2010 election victory.

    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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      #3
      AP photographer sees pro-government militiafire at opposition protesters, killing at least 1.

      Not exactly the way to calm things down.

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        #4
        Cool...

        ....could be the start of the second revolution in how many years??

        Pendulum swinging the other way??

        PZZ

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          #5
          Eyewitness reports on twitter say more people have been shot, plain-clothes police picking key members of the protestors out of the crowd. It's all on twitter now under #IranElection, pictures, video etc.

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            #6
            Funny how all the protest banners are written in English.

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              #7
              Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
              Could almost be Gordon Brown's 2010 election victory.
              So we are Iran now? In that case it's a bit odd that we're running out of oil and we are run by US multinationals not a ferret-faced shortarse who calls himself our little brother.

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                #8
                Perception Management

                An American-originated opinion poll published in the Washington Post has suggested that Mr Ahmadinejad's surprisingly large margin of victory might in fact reflect the genuine will of the Iranian people.

                The poll, conducted three weeks before the vote, indicated that Mr Ahmadinejad would win by a ratio of 2:1, slightly higher than the actual declared outcome.

                But the near universal assumption of his rivals' supporters - and of most Iran analysts and much international political opinion - seems to be that he could only have won so massively by an unprecedented use of electoral fraud.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by AlfredJPruffock View Post
                  Perception Management

                  An American-originated opinion poll published in the Washington Post has suggested that Mr Ahmadinejad's surprisingly large margin of victory might in fact reflect the genuine will of the Iranian people.

                  The poll, conducted three weeks before the vote, indicated that Mr Ahmadinejad would win by a ratio of 2:1, slightly higher than the actual declared outcome.

                  But the near universal assumption of his rivals' supporters - and of most Iran analysts and much international political opinion - seems to be that he could only have won so massively by an unprecedented use of electoral fraud.


                  There's no doubt it's fraud from what I have read. Moussavi even lost in his own town, which was completely unexpected, and from all the dissent that is now happening it looks as if Iminmedinnerjacket is not that popular.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Cyberman View Post
                    There's no doubt it's fraud from what I have read. Moussavi even lost in his own town, which was completely unexpected, and from all the dissent that is now happening it looks as if Iminmedinnerjacket is not that popular.
                    OK CyberTory says it's fraud and claims he can read - that's good enough for me.

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