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It amazes me how much attention has been given to whether the Iran vote count was legitimate or whether Ahmedinejad would have won a fair vote. The real story here is government’s cooption of the process that it carefully controlled from the very beginning and the disruption, intimidation, and brutality that characterized its response to dissenters within the system.

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The story sounds oddly familiar. An incumbent, unpopular, hard-line, right wing leader spawned a youth movement dedicated to changing the image of the country in the eyes of the world, challenging social and religious conservative mores, and improving the economy. The outcome in Iran, however, isdevastatingly different.

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