Challenger Mir Hossein Musavi and current President Mahmud Ahmadinejad are both claiming victory. But the Iranian Minister of Elections has just claimed than Ahmadinejad has 69% of the vote with 5 million votes counted. Not many people outside of Iran were expecting a true fair democratic election. Liberals on the left in the U.S. were very quick to claim that the so called "Obama Effect" has had an influence in ousting the outspoken anti-semitic Ahmadinejad after the Obama's appology tour latest stop in Cairo.
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