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On the edge of a noisy Tehran rally for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad early last week, a middle-aged woman in a chador was cursing the opposition protesters who say the Iranian election was a fraud. “They are traitors, they are not even related to this country,” she said. “We all support Ahmadinejad and his policies.”But even there, in a government-organized crowd watched over by riot police and Basij militiamen, dissenting voices could be heard. “Not everyone here is for Ahmadinejad,” whispered a woman in a gray headscarf who spotted my reporter’s notebook. “Most of them are for the opposition, they just came here to see what is happening.” She scurried away into the crowd, but another came up — “the election was stolen!” — and another, and another, until I lost count and began to wonder if I was dreaming: “It is all cheating and lies.” “Don’t believe them.” “This is not the true Iran.” Ascertaining what the true Iran is has never been harder. What is clear, though, is that the electo
