The New York Times reports without comment or qualification today:

Mr. Qashqavi [Iranian foreign-ministry spokesman] drew comparisons with American election results.
“No one encouraged the American people to stage a riot” because they disagreed with the re-election of George W. Bush, he said. Quoted by Press TV, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the authoritative Guardian Council — a 12-member panel of clerics charged with certifying the vote — denied claims by another losing candidate, Mohsen Rezai, that irregularities had occurred in up to 170 voting districts.

UPDATE: A reader points out that it is worse than my pre-coffee post self realized:

It’s worse than that: The quote mentions the RE-election of Pres. Bush, so he’s referring to 2004’s decisive defeat of Sen. Kerry. So I guess even that is considered questionable by NYT. Thank goodness they didn’t add an editorial rejoinder comparing the mullahs to the “values voters” that gave W. his 2004 victory.