Chinese netizen reactions to Iranian election

Be it the 50-cent Party or the fringe nature of cyber opinions, the quoted comments are hardly representative of the young urban professionals I know.

The only thing there is no doubt about is that you know Iran.

Of course, you have the Western media blahing blahing about how close the election is beforehand. It was never close. Anyone who knows Iran know Ahmadinejad is a populist who is extremely popular with working class, rural Iranians, just like Thaksin was very popular with the rural Thais. There is no doubt that Ahmedinejad won the election.

@BBC1, I'd like to draw your attention to the following quotes:

"The Ahmadinejad-Khamenei Iran - despite the celebrations following the forgeries of the elections - is heading to oblivion and without any direction. It would not be any exaggeration at all to say that the ayatollah's regime has lost its legitimacy among the Iranian people, which opens the way for the possibility of great changes in the near future."

"This is the upheaval of a generation deprived of its simplest legitimate rights in awareness, understanding and political, cultural and economic choices... Has the countdown started to the end of this phase of [the Iranian Islamic] revolution? It seems this needs time, but change is inevitably coming."

Which damnable Western newspaper did I get these quotes from, you ask? The NY Times? The Guardian? Le Monde? Actually the first one was written by Umar al-Ghul in the Palestinian Al-Hayat al-Jadidah and the second is from Rashid Fahd Rashid of Saudi Arabia's Al-Riyadh newspaper. That's right- two of the least-Westernized media outlets in the world.

You can moan all you want about the Western media, meanwhile you're completely missing the point by framing the situation as a loss to U.S. political interests. The big picture is much bigger than Ahmadinejad's next 4-year term, and it is this: the current regime has lost all credibility with millions of Iranians, as these quotes (as well as the daily protests in Tehran and all over the country) have shown. This could very well be the beginning of the end of your precious authoritarianism in Iran.

By the way, I can't figure out why you feel the need to defend Ahmadinejad so much. This is a man who has, on several occasions, called the Holocaust a myth, and who has said Israel should be "wiped off the map". I don't know what you call that kind of person in China, but in the US we call those kinds of people "batsh!t crazy". I know you'll say or do almost anything to show everyone how pro-China you are, and for some reason you think that being anti-US and being pro-China are the same thing, but take a look at Ahmadinejad's record before you jump into bed with him. Otherwise you'll sacrifice what's left of your credibility on this site.

There is also no doubt that it can realistically take less than 24 hours to hand count 40 million hand written ballots.

lamb shashlik, hand counting is definitely more reliable than chads. LOL!

Hey lamb shashlik, even if Mousavi wins, don't assume Iranians will kiss US arse. Afterall, they still remember how the CIA overthrew Moussadegh, after he rightfully demanded to get oil royalties from BP. LOL!!! Of course, US is crying because their "man" didn't win.

I have a sneaking suspicion that if the result had gone the other way it would not be viewed as such a sham. The problem with democracy is that in any election it is possible to have up to 49% of the population unhappy with the result. If there are electoral colleges then the percentage of pissed off people can actually exceed 50% a-la-Gore.

That's not the only problem with Democracy.

Nice to see Jackie Chan took some time off from filming the sure to be instant classic Big Soldier to hit the internet and comment on some forums.