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I happen to be sharing an office with an Iranian. His English is pretty bad, but he says the election was definitely stolen, and he thinks there's no hope that things will be righted. He also says, which I have not heard elsewhere, that polling stations were "captured," or at the very least there were fake votes, as opposed to just centralized fraud. But it's possible there was a language barrier. Of course, a math researcher currently in Canada is certainly part of the educated elite. I guess the explanation for how poor the fraud is is just that Mousavi was on his way to winning outright, which they weren't at all prepared for, and so they then did a frantic, clumsy fraud. But it's startling how poor a fraud it was -- almost unbelievably bad as a fraud. It almost makes you agree with the Douglas Adams quote

"I refuse to prove that I exist", says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"But", says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? it could not have evolved by chance. it proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."

"Oh dear", says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.