Shit hitting the fan in iran
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ahmadinejad stole the election.
sowstochd
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http://http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/15/iran.elections.protests/index.html
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian presidential candidate Mir
Hossein Moussavi told followers Monday he will "pay any cost" to
contest the country's presidential election results, but said he had
little hope his challenge would succeed.
The official results showed incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
winning with more than 62 percent of the vote, and Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- the true leader of Iran -- has given
his blessing to the outcome.
Moussavi has alleged fraud and
filed a complaint with Iran's Guardian Council, which oversees
elections, but he said the council had not remained neutral in Friday's
vote.
"I don't have any hope in them," he said in a statement posted on his campaign's Web site Monday evening.
The fraud complaints will be looked into by the Guardian Council, which
is made up of top clerics and judges. The council is expected to issue
its findings within 10 days.
An Iranian official who asked to
remain unidentified said allegations the Guardian Council was in
Ahmadinejad's corner are "unfair and unfounded."
In the United
States, President Obama said Monday he was "deeply troubled by the
violence I've been seeing on television" in Iran. "I think that the
democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully
dissent -- all those are universal values and need to be respected."
"We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States
being the issue inside of Iran," Obama told reporters at the White
House.
Obama did not take a position on the claims of election
fraud. But he said, "The Iranian people and their voices should be
heard and respected."
"Whenever I see violence perpetrated on
people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people
see that, I think they are rightfully troubled," he said. "I think it
would be wrong for me to be silent about what we've seen on the
television over the last few days."
In Tehran, Moussavi
surfaced in a sea of protesters who flooded Azadi -- "Freedom" --
Square on Monday, wearing an open-neck striped shirt and waving to
supporters. Iran's Press TV reported hundreds of thousands of people attended the rally.
View images of unrest in Tehran's streets »
Though the event, the largest protest in Iran since the 1979
revolution, was largely peaceful, at least one person was reported to
have been shot to death near its end. Demonstrations continued into
Monday night, with Moussavi's supporters taking to rooftops to chant
"God is great" -- an echo of the 1979 revolution that established the
Islamic republic.
Parisa Hatami, who attended Monday's demonstration, said the calls lasted for about half an hour.
"This was what people were saying 30 years ago during the Islamic
Revolution," she said. "Today, we used those words against the
government."
Moussavi, in his statement, called on authorities
to stop attacks on his supporters by police and Ahmadinejad's
supporters, and he urged his followers to continue demonstrating
peacefully.
"You are not breaking glass," he said. "You are breaking tyranny."
Iran's Press TV reported hundreds of thousands of people attended the
rally, and Hatami said the crowd stretched down one street for nearly 8
kilometers (5 miles). The streets "were full of people who never, ever,
come to demonstrations in Tehran," she said.
"Everybody knows
we've been cheated," she said. "This regime, it's like they're just
playing with us." She said it was "impossible" that Ahmadinejad would
have racked up the totals in the official results, which she called "a
big lie."
"They tell everyone, 'You don't understand, and you
are nothing.' That's the matter," she said. "What is eating me is that
they think we know nothing."
Hundreds of riot police were
deployed at the edge of Monday's march, but did not intervene. However,
Press TV reporter Amir Mehdi Kazemi said he heard gunshots at the rally
and at least one person, a boy, appeared to be injured by the gunfire.
"A number of people started shooting, I heard a couple of gunshots, and
then this resulted in a number of people ... yelling at that particular
building," Kazemi said in his report on the government-funded TV
station. "The police have not shown any involvement in this issue right
now. The people are running."
A photographer for another news
agency reported one person had been shot and killed. A photograph from
that agency, which aired on CNN, showed a man apparently lying dead on
the street with a large amount of blood around him from a gunshot wound
to the head. Another man squatted over him, his arms outstretched.
The news agency has not linked the photograph with the photographer's
report, however. And another photograph showed a man who appeared to
have been shot in the abdomen; he is alive and being carried from the
scene.
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CNN could not independently confirm the reports.
Moussavi and the other two defeated candidates, Mehdi Karrubi and
Mohsen Rezaie, have reportedly been invited to the Guardian Council on
Tuesday to discuss any concerns over the election results.
In
his Monday statement, Moussavi told supporters, "The election fraud was
obvious, and I will pay any cost to realize the ideals of the Iranian
nation."
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian presidential candidate Mir
Hossein Moussavi told followers Monday he will "pay any cost" to
contest the country's presidential election results, but said he had
little hope his challenge would succeed.
The official results showed incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
winning with more than 62 percent of the vote, and Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- the true leader of Iran -- has given
his blessing to the outcome.
Moussavi has alleged fraud and
filed a complaint with Iran's Guardian Council, which oversees
elections, but he said the council had not remained neutral in Friday's
vote.
"I don't have any hope in them," he said in a statement posted on his campaign's Web site Monday evening.
The fraud complaints will be looked into by the Guardian Council, which
is made up of top clerics and judges. The council is expected to issue
its findings within 10 days.
An Iranian official who asked to
remain unidentified said allegations the Guardian Council was in
Ahmadinejad's corner are "unfair and unfounded."
In the United
States, President Obama said Monday he was "deeply troubled by the
violence I've been seeing on television" in Iran. "I think that the
democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully
dissent -- all those are universal values and need to be respected."
"We respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States
being the issue inside of Iran," Obama told reporters at the White
House.
Obama did not take a position on the claims of election
fraud. But he said, "The Iranian people and their voices should be
heard and respected."
"Whenever I see violence perpetrated on
people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people
see that, I think they are rightfully troubled," he said. "I think it
would be wrong for me to be silent about what we've seen on the
television over the last few days."
In Tehran, Moussavi
surfaced in a sea of protesters who flooded Azadi -- "Freedom" --
Square on Monday, wearing an open-neck striped shirt and waving to
supporters. Iran's Press TV reported hundreds of thousands of people attended the rally.
Though the event, the largest protest in Iran since the 1979
revolution, was largely peaceful, at least one person was reported to
have been shot to death near its end. Demonstrations continued into
Monday night, with Moussavi's supporters taking to rooftops to chant
"God is great" -- an echo of the 1979 revolution that established the
Islamic republic.
Parisa Hatami, who attended Monday's demonstration, said the calls lasted for about half an hour.
"This was what people were saying 30 years ago during the Islamic
Revolution," she said. "Today, we used those words against the
government."
Moussavi, in his statement, called on authorities
to stop attacks on his supporters by police and Ahmadinejad's
supporters, and he urged his followers to continue demonstrating
peacefully.
"You are not breaking glass," he said. "You are breaking tyranny."
Iran's Press TV reported hundreds of thousands of people attended the
rally, and Hatami said the crowd stretched down one street for nearly 8
kilometers (5 miles). The streets "were full of people who never, ever,
come to demonstrations in Tehran," she said.
"Everybody knows
we've been cheated," she said. "This regime, it's like they're just
playing with us." She said it was "impossible" that Ahmadinejad would
have racked up the totals in the official results, which she called "a
big lie."
"They tell everyone, 'You don't understand, and you
are nothing.' That's the matter," she said. "What is eating me is that
they think we know nothing."
Hundreds of riot police were
deployed at the edge of Monday's march, but did not intervene. However,
Press TV reporter Amir Mehdi Kazemi said he heard gunshots at the rally
and at least one person, a boy, appeared to be injured by the gunfire.
"A number of people started shooting, I heard a couple of gunshots, and
then this resulted in a number of people ... yelling at that particular
building," Kazemi said in his report on the government-funded TV
station. "The police have not shown any involvement in this issue right
now. The people are running."
A photographer for another news
agency reported one person had been shot and killed. A photograph from
that agency, which aired on CNN, showed a man apparently lying dead on
the street with a large amount of blood around him from a gunshot wound
to the head. Another man squatted over him, his arms outstretched.
The news agency has not linked the photograph with the photographer's
report, however. And another photograph showed a man who appeared to
have been shot in the abdomen; he is alive and being carried from the
scene.
CNN could not independently confirm the reports.
Moussavi and the other two defeated candidates, Mehdi Karrubi and
Mohsen Rezaie, have reportedly been invited to the Guardian Council on
Tuesday to discuss any concerns over the election results.
In
his Monday statement, Moussavi told supporters, "The election fraud was
obvious, and I will pay any cost to realize the ideals of the Iranian
nation."
natedogg789435
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what else is new
steezemeister
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yeah dude the glorious leader didn't even have to decide the winner of the election, he won* by hella votes anyway!
*not really
*not really
