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DML -- pro-Iran-protestors rally in Union Square at 7 pm tonight. should I go? -- nm

Posted by znufrii Jun 17 '09, 14:14

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Can I get the Coles Notes version of what happened in Iran? I've been swamped and haven't looked at the news in a few days. -- nm - Subversive Jun 17, 14:20 5
- american translation ... "Can I get the Cliff Notes version ..." - zork Jun 17, 14:22
- They had an election, and despite a record turnout, proclaimed Ahmadinejad the winner in a landslide, protests have ensued. -- nm - znufrii Jun 17, 14:21 3
  - (the main accusation being that the election commission just made up the results rather than actually counting the ballots) -- nm - znufrii Jun 17, 14:22 2
    - but the protests are not peaceful like Ukraine's Orange Revolution a few years ago - zork Jun 17, 14:24
    - Right; the theory being that it would be very hard to count five million votes in the two hours they had available for the counting before declaring - the victor -- nm - Beryllium Jun 17, 14:23
"pro-Iran"? - con_carne Jun 17, 14:17 2
- seriously, could they over-simplify it anymore? -- nm - Guy Jun 17, 14:24
- pro-Iran-protestors. - znufrii Jun 17, 14:18
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- says 7-9 on the site I went to. obvie will probably continue, unofficially, past then. -- nm - znufrii Jun 17, 14:17

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