Ahmadinejad sucks at Photoshop

The crowd in this pro-Ahmadinejad rally appears to have been clone-tool enhanced.

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Anonymous

Not a surprise. Anyone remember this?
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/07/iranthirdplace.jpg
feluda

How is this different from what Bush had done where multiple times he cloned crowd images specially one where he was addressing military personnel and where “crowd happiness” was photoshopped at the falling of Bagdhad ?
Anonymous

Good on the Iranian people for making their voices heard.
dbarak

I FOUND WALDO!!!
Antinous / Moderator

It’s not our photo.
Pantograph

I FOUND HIM TWICE!!!
Bemopolis

This is nothing new. Despots have been P’slopping crowds shots for years. For example,

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/27/22442/878
Anonymous

I found Waldo’s right shoe!
GuidoDavid

Feluda:
That’d be even worse than this. Can you give us some link for future reference next time some deluded person comes to babble about how much support America has there?
dbarak

@ #6 posted by Pantograph

Nice return, well played! ; )
Anonymous

Im from Iran, 90 percent of IRanian hate him
He is a bad mark on our face, he is not our choice, we are a free nation, but this Ahmadinejad is a dictator.
Anonymous

I found Jimmy Hoffa.
Takuan

hopefully soon an ex-dictator.
Anonymous

You people comparing Bush to the Iranian regime are ignorant idiots who have no understanding of the severity of the repression and genocidal tendencies of Ahmedinajad and Khomeni.
Anonymous

@Ted8305: Not just the flags as t3knomanser said, but also they are holding pictures of Ahmadinejad.

This reminds me of this old case with Scientology photoshopping their crowd photos: http://bit.ly/ZuG73
Anonymous

They also used the cloning tool on the ballots.
Anonymous

What Iran needs is the separation of church and state.
john mars

People, please don’t be so nasty…
just wait until you taste their food…
you might do what I did after tasting it…

I RAN
Anonymous

Hey! Maybe those clones are all the folks who gave Ahamadinejad his “landslide!”
petkov

Wht bt th stry tht BBC ws jst cght n Mss Pblc Dcptn Wth rn Prpgnd?

http://www.nfwrs.cm/bbc-cght-n-mss-pblc-dcptn-wth-rn-prpgnd/

Whts gd fr th gs s gd fr th gndr, n?

ls, ds nybdy rmmbr tht prvs S prsdnt clld Bsh wh ws n ffc fr 8 yrs llglly?
hds

i want a mashup of the missile-picture and this one. any volunteers? (i suck at photoshop) :)
SamSam

The site seems to be getting bogged down. Here is the coralized link: http://kheirkhah.ir.nyud.net/?type=dynamic&lang=1&id=683
petkov

h, shll, y? th ntrnt s fll f y.

sr thy “cknwldgd t” ftr Whtsrllyhppnng.cm cght thm. Sm s th fk phts f th tpplng Sddm’s stt, r th hnt fr “wpns f mss dstrctn”, r th hnt fr Bn lldn r….
Anonymous

Can someone please post a link to the original photo?
sammich

Petkov @ 28 – “Mass Public Deception”? or (uncharacteristically) careless mistake?

Acknowledged on the BBC News website today –
Update 19 June 2009: an earlier version of our caption was incorrect. We wrongly stated that this was a pro-Mousavi rally when in fact it was a pro-Ahmadinejad rally.
Takuan

rude little git, ain’t ya? Mind yer manners, petkov, easier to believe you’re the shill here.
Anonymous

At this point there really needs to be an episode of “You Suck at Photoshop” for this.
Anonymous

he is a real ass just like bush jr.
and beside more that 2/3 of irans voters are in the streets
and they want their votes back
Anonymous

It COULD just be that at the instant the picture was taken, the crowd happened to be distributed in a pattern consistent with fakery.

Like the election results.
Anonymous

i was there and really there were so much a people!
Cowicide

@ #18 POSTED BY HDS:

The missiles are missing, but here’s an even “closer look” at this photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/49403380@N00/3637392061/
No photoshop was used, I swear to gawd.
Anonymous

HI,I AM IRANIAN,TO KNOW THE REAL NEWS,NO ONE WANTS AHMADINEJAD(BIGGEST ASSHOLE EVER,BESIDE KHAMENEI) HERE. ======>WE JUST WANT OUR FREEDOM<==========
myke

How is this different from what Bush had done where multiple times he cloned crowd images specially one where he was addressing military personnel and where “crowd happiness” was photoshopped at the falling of Bagdhad ?

Well one is a man with dictatorial tendencies that uses religious
posturing to provide support for his government. The other was a
man with…, um, nevermind.

Slightly more seriously, Bush had more power than Ahmadinejad. You
should probably compare Bush to Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader
together. In that case, the religious zealots in Iran have a bit
more power than the religious zealots in the U.S.
Takuan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/19/justice-department-worrie_n_218015.html
Anonymous

Well, then, how many people were at the rally?
GuidoDavid

Come on, can’t you see it’s a CIA-Mossad plot to make you care about Iranian people and bomb them?! You are naÃ¯ve!
Anonymous

The person who actually did the photoshopping is probably dead now thanks to this post.
Danmarki

Hi, I would like toi know if itÂ´s possible to use the pic for a newspaper article if we give the credits to this blog.
Sean Collins

I hope they are able to get rid of those fanatics that stifle the lives of Iranian people. Confusing faith and fact has caused Iran’s government to make Iran a backward country like European countries under the Inquisition. Before the revolution there may have been less political freedom but there was more personal freedom. Iran was like Thailand with a monarchy and a strong military and strong secret police. Perhaps ironic but the secret police’s job was to prevent the type of Iran we now have from emerging.
Alex_M

Iran does love the clone brush, doesn’t it..
Ted8305

How do we know whether this was a pro- or anti- Ahmadinijad rally?
t3knomanser

@Ted8305: the flags. Ahmadinejad has been using the Iran flag as his icon, Mousavi and now the protesters are simply using the color green.