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Recent Iranian Presidential Elections II

By ARK - Jun 27th, 2009 at 8:44 am EDT

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They were four candidates in that election...And two of those four candidates got more votes than the others, Mr. Ahmadinejad and Mr. Mousavi. Mr. Ahmadinejad is the present President of Iran …It would be VERY hard to believe that the governing system in Iran would do any thing to prevent Mr. Mousavi from being elected due to the following reasons; a- Mr. Mousavi is a former two term Prime Minister exactly at the same time as the present Leader was the President of Iran. b- Mr. Mousavi is reformist and so were two former two term Iranian presidents, Mr. Hashemi and Mr. Khatami. By the way, Mr. Hashemi is the Head of Experts Parliament of Leadership and the Head of the Expediency Council which a very high ranking council in Iran. The Expediency Council is so powerful that it usually gives the final verdict when there is difference of opinion between the Iranian Parliament and the Guardian Council which oversees the elections and approves candidates as well. Both former two-term presidents Hashemi and Khatami are staunch supporters of Mr. Mousavi. So Mr. Mousavi has very powerful supporters as well.

And then in IRAN there is what is called the two-party system in the West. Messer Hashemi, Khatami, Mousavi and Karoubi belong to the Reformist Group (Party) and Messer Ahmadinejad and Rezai belong to the conservative Group (party). Now even if there were alleged irregularities and vote rigging, shouldn’t the reformist Group exhaust all legal means of protesting and gathering evidence before calling for continues street demonstrations… Or from day one they should have done it the hard way by calling streets protest day after day and trying to cripple some cities in Iran. There are no exit polls in Iran, so nobody could have known who is winner except those who were counting the votes…And Messer Mousavi and Karubi first claimed their representatives were kicked out during the counting of votes, then Mr. Mousavi claimed victory and afterwards, when those who were counting the votes, declared Mr. Ahmadinejad as the winner, they claimed vote rigging. Since there are no exit polls in Iran and by their own account, Messer Mousavi’s and Karoubi’s representatives were kicked out during the vote counting, then how could they have known for sure who was the winner to a degree that Mr. Mousavi claimed victory that same night and later on when they found out they had lost, the candidates and their supporters claimed votes could not have been counted so fast and so there should have been vote rigging. Any such claims could go both ways, shouldn’t they? And then based on those speculations, days and days of street protests, riots and insults. Could the US Government handle 9 straight days/nights of protests/riots on major Washington streets? And then some digital pictures were sent out. Those same pictures showed a civil defense base in Tehran being burnt and fire bombed by some rioters during one demonstration in Tehran where 98% of protestors were peaceful, Nobody talked about that civil defense base burning, because it would not have savvy and Schick to tell both sides of the story, but every one talked about the harsh reaction of Basijis (Civil Defense Forces). Nobody talked about beating and kicking of Basijis by some rioters but everybody talked about and sent out pictures of shootings by Basijis defending that same burning base. No news network talked about some rioters burning buses, motorcycles, stores, trash cans and breaking all windows of many branches of quite few major banks in Iran, but every body talked about the beating done by the anti-riot police?! The interesting part is more than 90% of Iranians have access to the Internet but only 35% of them use it so well, as did some so called amateur reporters!…And most of those Internet Savvy demonstrators/ amateur reporters spoke English so well?! So even if Messer Mousavi, Rezai & Karoubi got those so called sophisticated people’s entire vote (35% percent) + 12% more votes, then it would add up to 47% and still that would NOT be a majority. But the best way to go about their claims would have been and still is through legal means and not street demonstration. In order NOT to give a 2% rioters and terrorists among demonstrators a chance to try to fish in muddy waters by trying to threaten the national security of Iran.

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