Trouble in Tehran

Summary


IRAN'S presidential elections - won by incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad amidst allegations of corruption - has caused violent protests in the country. How will it pan out?

LAST MONTH'S IRANIAN presidential elections was going swimmingly well for the popular reformist opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi - until nearly every ballot box in the country returned with a majority vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. There were allegations that Ahmadinejad had rigged the election. Meanwhile, the so-called Guardians Council sat back, knowing that Ahmadinejad would stop at nothing from winning the poll.

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Trouble in Tehran

Tehran's streets were immediately seized by Mousavi's supporters, literally hundreds of thousands of them, and more joining them every day from other parts of Iran, to show their displeasure at Ahmadinejad's cowardliness.

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