[DoctorZIn]

This just in from inside of Iran…

The regime is reporting their crowd in Tehran is over 1,000,000.

A student in Tehran wrote me saying this is impossible.

Here is his reasoning.

He claims the length of that street the demonstration took place in is not more than 7 or 8 kms and the width is around 40 meters.

So if you multiply 8000 mts by 0.4 mt, you get 3200 Sq Mts (surface of the region that people stood on).

So if only 100 people stand on every 1 sq mt of that surface (( which is impossible ))
then you wont be able to see more than 320,000 protestors which most of them are imported to the city.

DoctorZin Note: February 20th we will see the size of the support the regime actually has when the elections are held. Most observers expect fewer than 10% of the potential voters will actually got the polls and large numbers of them will do so out of fear.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

There have been anti-war demonstrations in the US, where the numbers were inflated, and later digital photography and mathematics proved it.

The same could be done regarding the numbers in Iran, but it probably won't happen. It isn't like CNN is going to investigate!

My main point is, this is NOTHING new. And if Freepers know anything, they understand how manipulation works, that's why we are gravitated to FR, and the REAL story.

Thanks for your work, Doc. It is important that we are all informed.

[pragmatic_asian]

Your math is a bit off. It's 8000m x 40m = 320,000 sq meters. You could easily fit 3 to 4 people per square meter. Still I wouldn't accept any figures from that regime.