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Iran's Future Unclear Following Presidential Election | The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

June 12, 2009

AFSHIN MOLAVI, fellow, New America Foundation: Well, you know, Margaret, this is very common in Iranian presidential elections.

In the 2005 elections, you had four or five candidates declare early victory. So, in a sense...

MARGARET WARNER: But the election commission?

AFSHIN MOLAVI: That's right.

The election commission has -- I mean, has pointed out that, of the 45 percent of the vote, Ahmadinejad is ahead. This is what is different from the 2009 -- the 2005 elections. Because, in 2005, they just announced the election results early in the morning. They didn't do this kind of rolling results. Link to transcript



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