What do you think of Iranians who are able to post on twitter and what they are saying?

[Forget War Buy More]

I realize some aren't in English, but I find this fascinating.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comme...an/c0a9wg5

Thoughts?

[red thought]

from a linked source;

"I believe many so-called "Ahmadinejad supporters" are paid.. cannot show proof though. #iranelection"

Ah, a spy game within a spy game, how compelling.

[smallsnake495]

The people in Iran know they have been well and truly screwed...again.

[justgoodfolk]

They're not poor or working class and I wonder how many CIA agents are amongst them.
I'm highly skeptical this is genuine and in how far

For anyone with a serious knowledge of Iranian society and politics, the decisive victory of Ahmadinejad could not have come as a surprise. Even Western newspapers that denounced the election admitted that the incumbent had strong support among urban workers and the rural poor—the vast majority of the population. Ahmadinejad has retained this constituency, despite the repressive and corrupt character of the regime, because of the absence of a socialist alternative.

On what mass base could Mousavi depend for a successful bid to unseat Ahmadinejad? The candidate of the Iranian liberal establishment, he campaigned as no less an ardent defender of Islamist clerical rule than Ahmadinejad. On domestic policy, he vaguely called for more openness, while opposing Ahmadinejad’s “populist” subsidies to the urban poor and the peasantry.

The media has not sought to explain why the mass of the Iranian people should be expected to support an advocate of the same free market policies that have produced a social disaster throughout the world. Mousavi’s most prominent backer, moreover, was Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a leading figure in the state apparatus and one of the country’s wealthiest men. Rafsanjani, notorious for his corruption, is despised by Iranian workers and the poor.

Mousavi’s actual electoral base did not extend beyond better-off-sections of the urban middle class, university students and businessmen.

EDIT There's absolutely nothing surprising in that Iranians who use Twitter like Musavi. The majority of Iranians does not have Internet access and has probably never even heard of twitter. In that light his overwhelming support there means nothing

Only a third of Iranians even have internet access. Twitter can not be representative

[Chris H]

They sure seem to belie the election results.

[gomanyes]

So what exactly is the issue?

They probably learn English in Iran.