the head of the guardian council, jenosee. publicly endorsed ahmadinejad. not objective observer. an earlier caller asked what are the evidence of fraud. that is the major sign of impropriety when you have people that are publicly endorse ahmadinejad being the ash arbitrators of this election. i think several hours after the polls closed states had announced that ahmadinejad had won. people ask how do you count 30 million votes in a span of a couple of hours. they're hand-counted. didn't make much sense. host: tom on our line for independents. welcome. caller: thank you for taking my call. if he feels there was fraud, why the election was so lopsided. i mean, it was totally lopsided. like he said himself, the other guy was older -- hello, sir. i thought i was off, looking at the tv. he said the other guy was old and everything. i think the iranians are probably moving toward -- like the united states is doing. we get these older guys out of office and getting somebody in there that is more younger. and more charismatic. we need to stop meddling in people's business. i think iran -