{"id":8290,"date":"2009-06-13T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2009\/06\/ahmadinejad-wins-big\/"},"modified":"2009-06-13T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:37:33","slug":"ahmadinejad-wins-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2009\/06\/ahmadinejad-wins-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmadinejad wins BIG!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, has won the elections and said to have won 62.63% votes!  This seems to be a fixed elections for sure.  I remember watching Christian Amanpour on CNN when she was reporting a day back that from all the people in the polling stations that she had been talking to \u2013 Mir Hossein Mousavi, the contender seemed far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadinejad had the support of the rural people while the younger population was with Mousavi.  Wonder what is next in that region?  It is rare that youth goes up in passion for something and be settled for something less than radical change.<!--break--><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, has won the elections and said to have won 62.63% votes!  This seems to be a fixed elections for sure.  I remember watching Christian Amanpour on CNN when she was reporting a day back that from all the people in the polling stations that she had been talking to &#8211; Mir Hossein Mousavi, the contender seemed far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadinejad had the support of the rural people while the younger population was with Mousavi.  Wonder what is next in that region?  It is rare that youth goes up in passion for something and be settled for something less than radical change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ahmadinejad wins BIG!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Iranian President, Ahmadinejad, has won the elections and said to have won 62.63% votes! This seems to be a fixed elections for sure. I remember watching Christian Amanpour on CNN when she was reporting a day back that from all the people in the polling stations that she had been talking to - Mir Hossein Mousavi, the contender seemed far ahead. 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