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Who had motives to cheat in the Iranian elections? « Time to Think

Was it Ahmadinejad or his supporters?

Simple answer: No

Esam Al-Amin had “A Hard Look at the Numbers”, and he concluded that not only the western sponsored survey done by an institute connected to ABC news and the BBC, but also most inner-Iranian pre-election polls predicted that President Ahmadinejad would win the elections by a large margin.

The Ahmadinejad government and those who support it, would have known that. They would have known that there was no reason for cheating even if they had any opportunity to rig the votes on a vast scale.

Cheating is always risky, you could get caught. A certain winner and his supporters would never risk cheating, it would risk their legitimacy, a legitimacy they would gain easily by not cheating.

The opposition, however, would have known that, too. Even most of their polls showed that they would probably loose.

But besides being a bad sports and bad loosers,the opposition hated the government for other reasons as well.

Ahmadinejad is a true believer, not a diplomat. He believes that an Islamic society must show higher ethics than a non-Islamic society. He conceives that those higher ethics are honesty and justice. He has stated so in many of his public speeches.

Who had motives to cheat in the Iranian elections? « Time to Think.

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