Iran Dispute: Number of Ahmadinejad Fans --- 2.2 Billion or 31?
Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 7:38
Scott Lucas in EA Iran, Fars News, France 24, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Middle East and Iran

France 24 looks at the audience scorecard for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United General Assembly on 23 September.

The initial tally from Fars News, citing reader comments on an article on France 24.com, was 2.2 billion --- or about one comment for every three people on Earth and 1 1/2 comments for every Web user on the planet. 

Unfortunately for Iranian media and for Ahmadinejad, France 24 did some checking. Its article on the speech, in French and English, prompted 25 comments on the French version and six on the English. version, and 25 for the French. 

Fars' original article has now disappeared, but France 24 provides a very helpful screen-shot.

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