Khodafez -- Farwell

Iran Election Report

This is also from Press TV. Does this news excite you? Are there problems with the poll? What else strikes you about this report?

-Amir

Ahmadinejad tops Iran's pre-election polls

Mon, 04 May 2009 17:14:36 GMT

Iran's incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has emerged as the country's favorite followed by Mir-Hossein Mousavi in a pre-election survey.

According to an opinion poll carried out in 32 Iranian cities, 53.6% favor President Ahmadinejad as their chief executive while some 21.9% are set to vote for Mousavi.

About 3.8% of the respondents in cities except other than Tehran have made their decision to vote for Reformist Mehdi Karroubi and some 1.7% will vote for independent candidate Mohsen Rezaei.

Approximately 23.7% of the respondents in the Iranian capital will vote for the incumbent Principlist president while some 14.3% will pick Mousavi as president.

According to the nation-wide poll, 57.2% from Iranian cities will vote in the country's June 12 presidential elections and 21.9% will abstain from voting.

While 50.1% of the people of Tehran say they will vote, 30.6% will not vote.

Press TV Nuclear Report

Hello all. I hope your work on the final paper is going well. Below is the Press TV clip I showed you guys in class. I would like you to react to the different arguments made in the piece. Do you agree or disagree with the slant of the report?



-Amir