How do you feel that the Iranian President Ahmadinejad got elected in Iran?

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it seems probable that ahmadinajad's election was rigged. however, iranians want their own government, not one that is dictated to them by the US?

we should all remember that the mullahs came to power because the iranian people were so miserable under the shah, who was the kind of guy who tortured dissidents by electrocuting genitals until the genitals burned off - and the shah's secret police was trained by the CIA. this is all facts, by the way, look up "shah of iran" on google or something.

iranians want a genuine democracy like the one they had before the shah, which was when mossadegh was elected. unfortunately mossadegh was overthrown by the CIA. thus, though these demonstrations are a positive sign of some hopeful change within iran, we should all remember that ahmadinajad and the mullahs, bad as they are, are an improvement over the US-backed shah and that the US government probably does not want iran to have a genuine democracy.

finally, we should remember that everytime the US threatens iran with military attack the faction that supports ahmadinajad and other hard-liners grows, while the moderate democrats within the country shrink in power. just a few months ago Democracy Now! showed reformist activists within iran begging the US not to attack since that would lead to further repression within the society.

the best way to support iranian human rights at this point is for the US government to keep its hands out of the region.