Five Reasons to Suspect Iran's Election Results
Allegations of vote-tampering and electoral fraud began in Iran even before voting had finished. What is the evidence that the poll may have been rigged?
A poster of Iran's opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi on the ground in Tehran the day after the election
Yes. Support for Ahmadinejad was strangely consistent across the country, a real change from previous elections, when candidates drew different levels of support in different regions.
There were several other puzzlers in the results:
• According to official figures, Ahmadinejad handily beat Mousavi in Mousavi's hometown of Tabriz — a shocking result, given the candidate's popularity in his own region.
• Ahmadinejad beat Mousavi in the big cities, even though Iran's very limited polling and anecdotal evidence indicate that Mousavi is far more popular than the President in cities.
• The official figures put support for the other main reformist candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, at below 1%. That is far less than what was expected, and a drastic departure from the pattern in previous elections.
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