Did the Ayatollah fudge Iran's election results?

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged Iran to unite behind Ahmadinejad, calling the result a "divine assessment."

SHOOT: Ahmadinejad's victory is bad news for Israel and the USA, and possibly also for Iran.

clipped from news.yahoo.com The brazen and angry confrontations — including stunning scenes of masked rioters tangling with black-clad police — pushed the self-styled reformist movement closer to a possible moment of truth: Whether to continue defying Iran's powerful security forces or, as they often have before, retreat into quiet dismay and frustration over losing more ground to the Islamic establishment. Mousavi did not appear in public, but warned in a Web message: "People won't respect those who take power through fraud." Many backers took this call to the streets. Thousands of protesters — mostly young men — roamed through Tehran looking for a fight with police and setting trash bins and tires ablaze. Pillars of black smoke rose among the mustard-colored apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran. In one side road, an empty bus was engulfed in flames.