High Ranking Iranians Who Say Election Was Stolen (Iran's Own Electoral Commission Included)

[KittyWampus]

DU'ers who, for whatever reason, refuse to accept the Iranian election was purely fraud please read-


An Ayatollah Dissents

A Farsi-speaking reader translates this article:

Grand Ayatollah Sanei in Iran has declared Ahmadinejad's presidency illegitimate and cooperating with his government against Islam. There are strong rumors that his house and office are surrounded by the police and his website is filtered. He had previously issued a fatwa, against rigging of the elections in any form or shape, calling it a mortal sin.

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Dreyfus has an interview with Ibrahim Yazdi, "a leading Iranian dissident and Iran’s foreign minister in the early days of Islamic republic”:

A coup d’etat? They’ve already made one! They’ve created a dictatorship, in fact. Do you know that last night the security forces occupied the offices of many newspapers, to make sure that their reporting on the election was favorable? They changed many headlines. They fixed the election.

The Guards are taking over everything, including many economic institutions. The ministry of the interior is increasing its control in all the provinces.

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Stratford is reporting that Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, head of the Expediency Council, has resigned. Though unconfirmed, the report is saying that Rafsanjani is resigning from his position as head of the Expediencey Council, NOT his position as the leader of the Assembly of Experts, which has oversight responsibility over the office of the Supreme Leader and would be responsible for naming Ayatollah Khamenei’s successor.


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3:18 update: The President of the Committee of Election Monitoring: The Election is Invalid

Hojjat-ol-Eslam Yali Akbar MohteshamiPour officially requested that the Guardian Council to cancel this election and schedule a new election balanced and moderated democratically with the widespread and national presence of the people.

The Iranian Electoral Commission (Sianat az ara) was approved by all
candidates to monitor the election results

Conflicting reports, now, about Mousavi’s supposed arrest.

3:05 update: According to Mousavi’s website, a group of employees in the Ministry of the Interior in an open letter warned that the votes have been changed and manipulated in the state election commission. In this letter, which was addressed to the chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the President, the of Majlis of Iran, the heads of the legislative and judicial branch and several other government agencies, a group of employees stated that “as dedicated employees of the Interior Ministry, with experience in management and supervision of several elections such as the elections of Khamenei, Rafsanjani and Khatami, we announce that we fear the 10th presidential elections were not healthy.”


http://www.peykeiran.com/Content.aspx?ID=2104

http://mowj.ir/ShowNews.php?7217

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_...lier-posts.html

[angstlessk]

1. dern, they are worse than Democrats in parsing words..

"...we fear the 10th presidential elections were not healthy.”

sound like when the Democrats say 'disingenuous' instead of 'lying' in peoplespeak?

[Posteritatis]

3. You're probably seeing translated colloquialisms (nt)

[chill_wind]

2. This says it all to me:

A quote from an Iranian voter

"(...)
The Iranian people know that this election was rigged. How could it have been possible for Mousavi to lose Tabriz when he is from Iranian Azerbaijan and Ahmadinejad has abysmal approval ratings amongst Turkic speaking Iranians? On top of that, I voted in this sham election.

Do you know that all votes in Iran are cast on paper and that paper needs to be counted by HAND because you have to write in the code and name of the candidate you are voting for? Mousavi only claimed victory two hours into the vote because his campaign found out that the Interior Ministry was going to go forward and claim that it was extremely likely that Ahmadinejad was going to win, 2 hours into the balloting. You tell me, how do you even count 5.5 million paper ballots only two hours after the polls close? In Tehran it is also policy that the ballot boxes need to be transported to the Interior Ministry before they can even be opened, subtracting even more time from the 2 hours. Facebook does not work, Youtube does not work, basically all communications are down. You tell me sir, if they did not rig the elections where are all the people who supported Ahmadinejad? Why aren't they celebrating? Why is the mood in Tehran, even southern Tehran so gloomy? Why is the government so scared? When looking at these basic facts you can come to the conclusion far more easily than using some stupid statistical analysis that gives legitimacy to a government which for 30 years has just further consolidated its power."

From this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5843541&mesg_id=5843989