The American Media is Misleading

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, loved abroad (in the Middle East), hated at home. For you see, Iran is made up largely of an urban and young population which does not agree with his views.

Wrong.

Maybe it's just media groupthink (I don't really expect in Iranian media to explore the "darker" parts of the cities, nor any of the countryside), but that is what every single media outlet (tv, print, etcetera) says of Iran.

Yet Mahmoud won 65% of the vote to become re-elected as President. While the results are already being disputed, he was still projected at a 50/50 dead heat with the closest competitor. Therefore, at best, half of the country agrees with him and thinks he would be a good President.

The fact of him being President is even made out to be more of a deal than it should be, as Iranian Presidents don't usually wield that much power. Usually the power is in the hands of the Ayatollah. But seriously, why can't at least the mighty and powerful American media paint a more accurate picture.

Tampering would have to be on a huge scale to make my point invalid. To put it in perspective, the Ukranian voting debacle of a few years ago had some pretty major-scale tampering, yet it only affected a few percentage points in favor of the government in power.

Maybe Iran has bizarro voting, and they say bad-bye as a greeting. I dunno.

-- Knuttel