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...single-payer system may be working," Obama admitted. "But I believe - and I've even taken some flak from members of my own party for this belief - that it is important for us to build on our traditions here in the United States. So, when you hear the naysayers claim that I'm trying to bring about government-run health care, know this: they are not telling the truth." (After the New York Times reported last week the AMA's opposition to a public plan, the group said its stance had been misinterpreted and that it would be "willing...
...days of protests, Iran's powerful 12-member Guardian Council says it will call for a recount of specific ballot boxes from Friday's heavily disputed elections, according to the BBC and CNN. The Associated Press is reporting that "the recount would be limited to voting sites where candidates claim irregularities occurred." The unexpected concession came as pro-government and opposition supporters planned opposing marches in Tehran on Tuesday, raising fears of more violence following at least seven deaths the day before...
...spokesman for the Guardian Council, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted on state TV as saying the recount would be limited to voting sites where candidates claim irregularities took place. He did not rule out the possibility of canceling the results, saying that is within the council's powers, although nullifying an election would be an unprecedented step...
...directed against a substantial segment of the revolution's political establishment. Just as Mao Zedong, in China's Cultural Revolution, unleashed a campaign of terror carried out by poorer young people against what he decried as the more liberal, "bourgeois" elements of the communist party, so does Ahmadinejad claim to be waging a class war, with the backing of the poor and the security forces, against a corrupt political elite brought to power by the revolution. And he clearly has Khamenei's backing...
Those charging election fraud base their claim on several main arguments. They say the results were released too quickly and were given out as a single number rather than broken down by province, as in previous elections. They also charge that some numbers simply don't make sense, such as Ahmadinejad's higher count in Mousavi's hometown of Tabriz and the other moderate challenger Mehdi Karroubi's less than 1% vote count, despite his relative popularity among ethnic Lors, Kurds and Sufis, as well as women's and students' rights activists...