As of writing, there's been a lot of hearsay about whether or not the results of the Iranian election have been rigged.
I was speaking to a friend about the Iranian elections, and that person was able to provide me with a screen capture via another friend of an irregularity on Iranian TV with the voter count. Have a look inside:
I don't speak persian, so unfortunately I probably can't answer any further questions about the following photo. If someone else speaks the language, they can translate it properly.
However, it doesn't take long looking at this photo to realise something is a bit fishy. From the Iranian television network, IRIB:
top screenshot:
total votes: 30 506 422
TEHRAN 09:47
[photo of Ahmadinejad] 64.78%
19761433
[photo of Mousavi] 33.26%
9841056
[photo of Rezai] 2.08%
633048
[photo of Karoubi] 0.89%
270885
bottom screenshot:
total votes 34377493
TEHRAN 13:53
[photo of Ahmadinejad] 63.36%
21781391
[photo of Mousavi] 34.06%
11709391
[photo of Rezai] 1.71%
587913
[photo of karoubi] 0.87%
298798
The thing that has been circled, and what you should pay attention to, is the vote of the third party candidate Rezai.
That screenshot clearly shows that the vote for Rezai actually went backwards as the count was coming in, from 633048 votes to 587913 votes. Very strange indeed.
Now before we jump to conclusions, this isn't necessarily conclusive proof of fraud, but it is certainly an irregularity in the television coverage. While I have seen states in US elections and also electorates down here in Australia called too early for one candidate or the other, I have never seen a candidate's vote go DOWN in either case, except in the case of a recount. And you'd be hard pressed to see a vote go backwards like that.
Clearly, we have a few possibilities here. The first is that someone miscounted Rezai's votes when they were inputting it into the television. Which is certainly possible.
The other option is a bit more sinister - they were just making the numbers up, and someone was silly enough to make them up the wrong way.
For my friend's part, they think that the election was rigged, because none of the major candidates even won their own districts, which seems incredibly odd to any rational person.
Update: Hey, rec list. Thanks guys. But seriously, for the sake of Iranian democracy, spread as much stuff around as possible. And make sure you take screen captures of websites - the Iranian government will try to shut them all down. It seems like they've already got to TehranBureau.com - hopefully there'll be other sources.
Update 2: Apparently Rezai has conceded and endorsed Ahmadinejad (Rezai is apparently a conservative), but the other third party candidate in these screenshots, Karoubi, has also come out and denounced the result as a fraud.
Incidentally, just for those who think this absolutely means fraud - as I said in the article above, this alone doesn't prove it. It could be nothing but a typo, or it could be a lot. But whatever it is, it needs an explanation so we can find out whether we should discount it or accept it as some sort of sinister fraud.