>>>>>>Good to know that for a small country we are still punching above our weight in international relations
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>>>>>>Ayatollah Khamenei said today
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>>>>>> the election was a "political earthquake" for Iran's enemies - singling out Great Britain as "the most evil of them" - whom he accused of trying to foment unrest in the country.
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>>>>>It's just another attempt to shift focus away from their internal problems. They have to have an evil outside of their country to focus on or else the public might really start to take an interest in what is happening inside their country and want change...I guess blaming the U.S. today is not working for them so they have to find another target...
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>>>>Ironically for many in the west Ahmadinejad is the preferred result. Especially in Israel where the current government regard him as a gift.
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>>>Your country wouldn't be in this 'worst of the worst' position if you didn't allow Iranian citizens to use your websites to post their cell phone videos of the protests in Iran. Helping citizens in another country to have a voice and express their views and share them with the world brings nothing but trouble.... :o) You gave them a voice when their own country is trying to suppress those voices. What were you thinking??? :o) Freedom of speech??? How dare you!!!! :o)
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>>Though its possible the result is genuine and that what we are seeing is a the view of the westenized portion of Iran.
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>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/13/iranian-election
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>>http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org/upimagestft/TFT%20Iran%20Survey%20Report%200609.pdf
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>Here's one analysis of the Terror Free Tomorrow poll:
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>http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/did-polling-predict-ahmadinejad-victory.html
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>Tamar

Interesting. Thanks Tamar.

Irans new hatred of the UK is being put down to the BBC's new persian TV service. It amazes me that some people here would like to cut the BBC's funding (including things like the world service) when it provides such a useful avenue for communication with other countries.