It’s always so hard to know what’s really going on in places like Iran, given the combination of government repression/censorship and the Western-centric reporting of so many journalists. Ahmadinejad is clearly a terrible figure and an embarrassment, but it’s difficult to really know what the majority of Iranians think about him, or anything else for that matter.
There are these amazing images of the protests from the Boston Globe.
But it’s also worth reading this analysis of the vote from the Washington Post.