Soccer + Politics = ?

As you might know, today Iran's soccer team had a World Cup qualifying game against Qatar in Tehran. The game was at 7:30 AM pacific time. of course i watched the game. it was actually a nice game with a happy ending. Iran won 3-1. But aside from the weirdness of an empty Azadi stadium due to a ban, the number of times a message saying "voting is good, please vote on Friday in the parliament elections" rolled on the bottom of the screen was also amazing!! it seems the conservatives are quite worried about people not going to ballots this friday. i read somewhere that some 46 million people are eligible to vote. now imagine only 5 million vote this friday!! it would be funny/sad/pathetic/ugly/good(i think!). Don't you think?