Bye-bye Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, roar Iran crowds
“Death to the government,” chanted the several thousand Iranians packed into a football stadium in Tehran. “Death to dictators,” roared the young men and women, draped in green shirts, ribbons, bandannas and headscarves to signal their support for presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
“Bye-bye, Ahmadi,” they sang as they waved a sea of banners for the man who hopes to topple Mr Ahmadinejad in the presidential election tomorrow.
“Don’t rig the election,” they added for good measure.
Women have suffered particularly badly under Mr Ahmadinejad, and 20-somethings sporting sunglasses, make-up and dyed hair beneath their mandatory headscarves shouted themselves hoarse as speaker after speaker promised an end to repression, despair and the “empire of lies”.
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