2009/6/20 Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net>: > Milos Rancic wrote: >> I've got the first report. There are no information that something >> happened to any Wikimedian. >> >> Take a look at [1]. I don't expect bigger scale problems in Iran, but >> not just because of that analysis. Except theocratic structures, >> preset situation in Iran reminds me a lot to the situation in Serbia >> during late period of Milosevic. State structures without connection >> to reality have to reform themselves or they'll be replaced. >> Fortunately, [ordinary] Iranians don't want war because still fresh >> memories to war between Iraq and Iran. The situation was similar in >> 2000 in Serbia. >> >> [1] - >> http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_bueno_de_mesquita_predicts_iran_s_future.html >> > Nuclear weaponry in Iran may a concern to powerful western countries, > but I don't see it as being a major factor in the country's internal > politics. > While there may very well have been widespread fraud, that alone > wouldn't be enough to explain away a 29 percentage point spread. A > strong line of national security scare-mongering is always good source > of votes in the less educated parts of a country. We hear a lot about > what is happening in Tehran, but very little about the rest of the country. >
Believe me that it is possibly to fraud an election and shift the real results completely :-) History knows many of such examples. See for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_people%27s_referendum,_1946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_general_election,_1946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Vietnam_referendum,_1955 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud I don't know if it happened in Iran or not - I think we will know it for sure not eariler that 50 years from know, or maybe even never... -- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.ptchem.lodz.pl/en/TomaszGanicz.html _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l