IRAN : SURPRISING ELECTION RUN-OFF"
All candidates had failed to garner the needed 50% of votes required to avoid a run-off.", al-Jazeera reported.
All the predictions made about the name of the new Iranian president were wrong since the result of Friday's poll was a surprising run-off.
Iranian politicians and media outlets have expressed the idea that the result reflects the fact that Iran is a democratic country,
"Iran is democratic. What is happening in Iran proves it."
"This run-off is proof that we don’t tamper with election results, we don't suppress the voice of the people, and we don’t bow to foreign interests," said a government agent speaking in codition of anonimity.
"Given these results,
it is hard to predict who will emerge as the winner in the second round next week," a Tehran Times editor told al-Jazeera adding that,
"All the polls and predictions must have been wrong."
al-Jazeera
Il Romanaccio at 4:05 PM