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IRAN has always figured high on the list of the most fascinating countries I've visited. It has a strange sense of dislocation. Old versus new, conservative versus progressive. At one and the same time, many people I met there could be charming and messianic, sophisticated but often blinkered.
This, in part, perhaps explains the myriad of motives that have underpinned voters' choices of candidates in the current close-run presidential election. It also explains the blurring of illusion and reality when it comes to calling the current poll a true expression of the democratic process. As the battle enters a crucial second round, Robert Tait has been talking to voters on the streets of Tehran and Isfahan.See the full content of this document
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