Reality TV Hits Rock Bottom

A new form of US covert warfare -was first played out in Serbia in 2000. What appeared to be "a spontaneous and genuine political 'movement' was the product of techniques" developed over decades - based on the concept of commumication "swarming."

The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed.

Mousavi was backed by those layers of the clerical and political establishment, such as former presidents Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, who have been bitterly critical of Ahmadinejad’s “wasteful” handouts to the poor.