re: #8 lawhawk

Those protesters have plenty of courage to go around. My hat’s off to them.

Recounting the ballots isn’t going to be sufficient. A new election might not even be sufficient at this point to stop the demonstrations.

Events have taken on a life of their own.

Recounting the ballots would be pointless, because at many polling places in pro-reform areas (such as at overseas polling sites and rich areas), they “ran out of” ballots early in the day and Mosuavi supporters couldn’t vote.

Then, in addition, the 20% of Iranians who are illiterate got their votes handwritten in by government workers (all votes are write-in votes there), and most certainly in just about all cases, they wrote in Ahmadinejad’s name, regardless of what the illiterate voter requested.

Plus, the poll-counters are all piad by the Islamic Republic of Iran — they are not neutral.

Add it all up —-> crookedness.