Swimming young women and Ahmadinejad

Less educated rural men tend to be Ahmadinejad's real constituency who voted for him in the first round of the election. His win in the second round was mainly due to the fact that he was an unknown figure to most of Iranian outside Tehran, that he was not a cleric, and that his rival, Rafsanjani, was one of the most unpopular politicians in contemporary Iran.

So it's really surprising how desperate he is when trying to gather enough people in a big stadium in a city as big as Tehran.

Zeitoon writes in her blog that a friend of her at the university was trying hard to lure everyone to the Taleqani square in central Tehran tomorrow where they'd be picked up to be taken to the Azadi Stadium with a capacity of 12,000.

In return, she said, they were all given two free tickets for a public swimming pool, plus a brand new Maqna'e (government's favorite type of scarf) -- a brown one.