Growing Distrust of Iran’s Election Results

There have been huge riots in Iran in the wake of the country's recent election. So far, hundreds of thousands of people have demonstrated against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, and so far 1 has died during protest. There have been growing whispers of electoral fraud.

The Washington Post Reports:

CAIRO -- How do you count almost 40 million handwritten paper ballots in a matter of hours and declare a winner? That's a key question in Iran's disputed presidential election.

International polling experts and Iran analysts said the speed of the vote count, coupled with a lack of detailed election data normally released by officials, was fueling suspicion around President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide victory.

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