PHOTOS: High turnout in Iran, perhaps 70%. Voting hours will be extended 2 hours.

[flpoljunkie]

Sadegh Kharazi, an ally of the former prime minister, told Reuters that surveys made by reformers showed Mousavi was getting enough votes to win outright in the first round.

"I can say that based on our surveys ... Mousavi is getting 58-60 pct of the vote and we are the winner," he said.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/06/iranians_vote_in_droves_mousavi_ally_claims_lead.php?ref=fpa


Leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi holds his inked finger and identity card aloft, as he prepares to cast his vote with his wife Zahra Rahnavard, unseen, in the Iranian presidential elections at the Ershad mosque, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 12, 2009. The election follows a hotly contested campaign pitting current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against leading challenger and reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, amongst others. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)


Presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi (R) and his his wife Zahra Rahnavard cast their ballots during the Iranian presidential election in southern Tehran June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS)


Surrounded by his bodyguards Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holds his identification card and shows his inked finger after cast his ballot for the presidential elections in Tehran, Iran, Friday June, 12, 2009. Iranians began voting Friday on whether to keep hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for four more years or replace him with a reformist more open to loosening the country's Islamic restrictions and improving ties with the United States. (AP photo/Iranian students news agency, Arash Khamushi)


Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot during the Iranian presidential election, in Tehran June 12, 2009. REUTERS/Caren Firouz

[GodlessBiker]

1. Go Mousavi !

[AtomicKitten]

2. Lebanon's recent election makes me hopeful for a good outcome in Iran. n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

3. A "good outcome" in Iran

would be any not imposed by the Ayatollahs.

[Clio the Leo]

4. I'm gonna miss Mr. Ahmadinejad's jackets. ;-) NT

[babylonsister]

5. You mean that one stinky one he owns that he wears all the time?

:hide:

I hope we all get to miss it/them!

[Clio the Leo]

6. Yeah ..... sigh. It's always sad to see the decline of a fashion icon. NT

[gauguin57]

7. The last primary election brought out a whopping 10 percent turnout in my home county.

They put us to shame.

USA! USA! LOL!