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Good morning, Washington. Did you realize that there are 30,000 Iranians in the Washington metropolitan area? Well, there are — and the Post has a profile of their experiences at the polls yesterday — many at the Iranian embassy on Wisconsin Avenue, but also in places like Potomac, Manassas and Tysons Corner.

Hmm. “[M]ost [voters] said they fiercely wanted a change,” people driving from distances and arriving in record numbers to vote, some for the first time, and a large majority of them “tired of feeling embarrassed by their home country’s president”? Well, that sounds familiar. Surely enough, many progressive Iranians living in America took stock in Barack Obama’s victory last fall, and used YouTube and other “get out the vote” techniques to attract similar-thinking voters to the polls in the area.

In other news this morning:

>> WBJ reports on the latest legal challenge against the underground Metro extension through Tysons Corner.

>> Mike DeBonis has the latest inside baseball on the D.C. lottery contract.

>> There’s a whole bunch of traffic closures going on this weekend — you may want to check out Alert DC’s list of closures before hopping behind the wheel.