Well, don't rig the elections and people might actually unify behind you Mullahs.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Iranians to unite behind the cleric-led ruling system despite the rival demonstrations and street clashes, state television reported, and he said representatives of all four candidates should be present for any limited recount of disputed ballots.
What they need to do is just rule from behind the throne a little more effectively. In other words if you rig an election make it look like you didn't rig the election. So fake counting and having the reform candidate losing his home town just doesn't wash in the Internet age. People aren't idiots anymore and they are armed with Twitter and cellphone cameras now.
So in other words you have to actually go through the motions to buffalo people. That means fake counting the votes will take even more time then it did in the past. That means the reform candidate needs to win the cities and lose the rest of the country.
Hell, you can even have a disputed election that has a bunch of recounts with the Guardian Council finally finding for Ahmadinejoke in order to "preserve the stability of the Islamic Republic." It is a little like when Bush ran against Gore but with fewer hanging chads. Although the idea of a Mullah with his black turban peering over his glasses through a ballot would be deja vu all over again.
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