Re: [Pen-l] from Juan Cole: Chatham House Study Shows Massive Fraud

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Naiman wrote:
> I wonder why liberal academics like Juan Cole and Stephen Zunes are so
> adamant that the election must be called stolen. Why don't they
> reserve judgment, like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and
> the Obama Administration?

I am working right now on a blog entry about the elections, but will say 
right now that the question of a "stolen" election is besides the point. 
There is massive press censorship in Iran that even impacts a 
Koran-thumping candidate like Mousavi. By restricting our analysis to 
how much time it takes to count paper ballots, we are missing the big 
picture. Iran is run by a theocracy that never was elected by the 
people. Ahmadinejad, Mousavi and the other candidates had to be approved 
by this unelected theocracy. That is the problem.
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