Western media, along with thousands of Iranians protesting around the world, have formed a rough consensus over the six days since Iran's Presidential Election that Ahmadinejad's victory was the result of widespread fraud.

However, a recent Op-Ed in the Washington Post references a rare public opinion poll in suggesting that the election may indeed have been fair.

While there is not enough information to determine whether or not the election was rigged, this poll certainly doesn't rule out the possibility. If only because the poll's authors concluded prior to the election that the very same data predicted a relatively close vote.

Yet today, those same authors are claiming that their figures demonstrate the validity of Ahmadinejad's landslide victory.

Real News Network - June 18, 2009
Does U.S. poll rule out fraud in Iran?
Authors of heavily-quoted poll changed their conclusion to support validity of Ahmadinejad landslide

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Aijaz Ahmad, TRNN Senior Editorial Consultant and political commentator for the Indian newsmagazine Frontline, Political Science teacher, and frequent writer on South Asia and the Middle East, talks with Real News CEO Paul Jay with his analysis of the results of US policies and actions in Pakistan.

Yesterday we saw historian and US foreign and military policy analyst Gareth Porter talking with The Real News about Obama's Plan For Not Leaving Iraq and the President's announced intentions of leaving 50,000 troops in Iraq while trying to sell it as a withdrawal.

Today Porter, again talking with Paul Jay, talks about the geopolitical realities of the situation viv a vis Iraq, the entrenched vested interests of Petraeus and Odierno who both seem more interested in their own egos and legacies than anything resembling reality, and says that in spite of the U.S. efforts to create a U.S. - friendly regime, he concludes that history has already bypassed Obama's plans for Iraq as much as five or six years ago and the undeniable geopolitical fact of Iraq is that the US will have to leave Iraq to a government that tilts more to Iran than to the US.

Real News - March 5, 2009 - 12 min 38 sec
The Geopolitical Fact Of Iraq
Porter: The US will have to leave Iraq to a government that tilts more to Iran than to the US

How many more people are going to die for the worst foreign policy mistake in the history of America?