Ahmadinejad claiming victory now... streaming on Al Jazeera.

[jefferson_dem]

Says Iran "brings hope for all nations across the world" and more lines of utter bullshit.

What a lying POS.

http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

[Thrill]

1. CNN is showing it too

Sounds like this is over.

[jefferson_dem]

2. I think it's only just begun.

Sending vibes of strength and encouragement to the brave men and women demanding political accountability, on the streets of Iran.

[HughMoran]

3. Fucking batshit crazy ass hole stole the election and will continue to ruin Iran

What a fucking ass hole - this is one of those times when an mass uprising in required.

[Xenotime]

4. Why is he a POS if he was democratically elected? Please explain.

[Hippo_Tron]

5. There's a lot of skepticism about whether or not the election was legitimate

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. By the most knowledgeable denizens of the Internet chat rooms and bulletin boards

The skepticism is rampant!

[jefferson_dem]

9. Well, just about everyone other than the regime and its state-run media mouthpieces are skeptical...

I'll count you as not among them.

[Hippo_Tron]

10. This is hardly just people on the internets...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904563,00.html

[havocmom]

15. And plenty of it coming from community leaders IN Iran

Not just us armchair quarterbacks

One wonders how ANYONE could not imagine fraud in this election.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. You obviously don't understandn the way things work here

If the guy you SUPPORTED gets elected, it's the upright voice of the people speaking truth to power.

If the guy you OPPOSED gets elected, it's massive voter fraud on an unprecedented level.

This is a neat trick, because it allows you to pretend to really like democracy while being, for all intents and purposes, a totalitarian.

[HughMoran]

13. Except the polls didn't indicate a 2:1 victory

And the guy that lost claimed election fraud.

There is good reason to believe there was fraud with the dictator in power who was determined not to leave - even if he lost.

[jefferson_dem]

8. He would be a POS even if he was democratically elected.

Maybe it's just me but America-hating, holocaust-denying, gay-executing, islamic dictators are kind of shitty.

[jenmito]

11. He STOLE it! He was not democratically elected.

[TheBigotBasher]

12. Given the turnout

and all of the polls, (although not entirely reliable) there is no way he was elected with that level of support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_presidential_election,_2009

[SuperTrouper]

14. Bush was democratically elected in 2000? Ahmadinejad is a POS that is getting caught

stealing the election.