. . . or that's what they keep telling us.
Unless of course you're in India. Then there are only two types of consequences. Either the country is royally fucked or painfully screwed.
Anyways, Iran had elections last week. Now, usually Iran doesn't really feature in conversations which aren't about the upcoming global apocalypse. And having President Nutjob running his mouth at every opportunity has made matters worse. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has all the bigotry of Ann Coulter combined with the wit and charm of Dick Cheney. So the people of Iran agreed with the rest of the world and wanted to see this guy go back where he came from so that he could spend the rest of his days hurling abuses at the Jews and homosexuals in obscurity. So he decided to rig the vote, pull out a number from his ass and declare himself President-elect.
But the cable news channels in India seems to have abandoned the story. Hey, some people from Bombay handing out home-made trophies at a big do in Macau and manufacturing news about how everybody hates Dhoni again is more important. Meanwhile Willow Palin (only someone who hates their child would name them Willow) secretly prays that she is taken away by Social Services so that she may be able to escape the pathological woman people say is her mother.
CNN's butt was kicked by twitter. CNN even had to ask it's resident twat to defend itself.
However, there are still some journalists in Iran who are doing excellent work in brining this story to the rest of the world.
No one really knows what is going to happen in Iran. But one thing is clear that this revolution will be live blogged. For more information and up to the minute coverage, check here, here, here and here.
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I think the aftermath of elections in Iran reflects the frustration that would have developed in the people of Iran against the corrupt, incapable, fundamentalist leadership that had not just screwed their economy up, but also alienated the entire frikkin country. More than a vote against Ahmedinejad, it is people venting out their anger against that idiot Khameini.
Very frankly, am quite shocked that the protests have been continuing. Initially I had thought that the matter will die down in a few days and that people would easily resign themselves to another 4 years of pathetic rule.
@Rebel: Well, it seems that the people in Iran have had it with their oppressive regime. Now, no one really knows what's going to happen when this ends, but one thing's for sure that things are not going to be the same.
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