Evidently, at every polling place in Iran, there were fourteen observers, including a certain number of representatives of the candidacies. The observers at each polling place certified the vote count for that polling place. The Interior Ministry publishes the counts, polling place by polling place, on its web site. If any of those counts as published were wrong, the observers could call out the

discrepancy. To date, I have not heard that this has…

Absolutely the Iranians have a right to a fair election.

One of the requirements for having a fair election is to have an indigenous process for defining the rules and procedures of the election, carrying out the election, and working out any allegations of problems.

The Iranians have been denied this possibility in 2009 by an onslaught of spurious, unsubstantiated accusations of election fraud from abroad, mostly from a country that has…