Ahmadi Big Bang
Pepe Escobar:
Fishy vote count + Guile + Tactics: Why Ahmadinejad won
Iran has been hit by a political “earthquake”: against worldwide expectations, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won a landslide victory and a second term in the Iranian presidential election. At least that’s what the Iranian regime says – to the disbelief of quite a few Iranians, not to mention the puzzlement of the world. Pepe Escobar argues this has been a mix of a very well organized state operation, and Ahmadinejad’s real appeal to Iran’s vast rural and working classes. The objective was to prevent a “threat” to the Iranian revolution principles from emerging, embodied by the “green revolution” of Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s young supporters. The official margin of victory though, is simply not credible. The Iranian revolutionary system – embodied by top clerics and the Republican Guards – won. But will they get away with it?
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Bio
Pepe Escobar, born in Brazil is the roving correspondent for Asia Times and an analyst for The Real News Network. He’s been a foreign correspondent since 1985, based in London, Milan, Los Angeles, Paris, Singapore, and Bangkok. Since the late 1990s, he has specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central Asia, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He has made frequent visits to Iran and is the author of Globalistan and also Red Zone Blues: A Snapshot of Baghdad During the Surge both published by Nimble Books in 2007.
