Posts Tagged 'Iran'

Iran election — fast counting?

How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner?

via The Associated Press: AP Top News at 9:03 p.m. EDT.

A very good point.

I always like photographic stories: here is a great one about the election by Boston.com:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

Khatami is running!!!!

Mohammad Khatami is running for office.

When I was learning Comparative Government, all of the books we were reading were so hopeful for a change in Anglo-Iranian relations, because Khatami was still in power. Of course, the books were all at least 6 months-1 year old, so Ahmadinejad had already taken over.

But maybe now, all the things that Ethel Wood was saying may finally come true.

Exciting. Here’s a link to the BBC article.