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Mousavi wins Iran election with 65 percent of vote: top aide

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Ahmadinejad has been beaten by Mir Hossein Moussavi in the election in Iran, which has just ended.

On a personal note, this is fantastic news. My boss' brother is Jamal Khanjani, who is one of the 7 Iranian national Bahai leaders that the Iranian government has been trying to execute, and who still languishes in Evin Prison. His crime? Worshiping God. Moussavi has vowed to set them free, and in a sweeping acclamation of human rights, Moussavi's wife, who is also his running mate, made a quote about how man and woman are two wings of a bird, and a bird cannot fly without both: This was taken directly from Bahai scripture.

Change may be afoot in Iran, as the people have demonstrated that they do not accept the present status quo. The Mullahs had better take notice. They do it not at their own peril.

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Both sides claim victory in Iran election

State media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of Iran's election on Friday but challenger Mirhossein Mousavi alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.

The head of the state election commission said Ahmadinejad was leading Mousavi by 69.04 percent to 28.42 percent with more than 5 million votes counted from about 8,800 ballot boxes, or 19 percent of the total.

The official news agency IRNA said: "Dr Ahmadinejad, by winning most votes at the 10th presidential election, has secured his victory."

Mousavi had earlier tried to pre-empt official announcements by calling a news conference at which he alleged there had been irregularities, including a shortage of ballot papers.

"I am the definite winner of this presidential election," he declared.
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Going to be very interesting to see how this plays out.
 
The Mullahs aren't about to give in to "westernized" thinking. It'd be nice, but it ain't happening.

My fear is they make nice, then Obama allows Iran to become a "peaceful" nuclear power, then the radicals take over and we've got a nuclear Iran to deal with head on.
 
Ahmanutkabob won.

Choice between two hand picked extremists. All this election is is the people picking between the people the Guardian Council and Ayatollah have already picked for them.

Get it?..the "Mullahs" CHOSE them.



The only moderates in Iran are ether keeping their mouths shut, in prison, or dead.
 
Well now, this is going to be a cluster****. We won't know for weeks, if at all, who really won......

Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Iran rivals dispute poll victory
News Middle East

Iran rivals dispute poll victory



Mousavi claimed victory at a news conference
soon after polls closed [AFP]


Both Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main election rival have claimed victory in the country's election.
The conflicting claims came just hours after polls officially closed on Friday.

"The speculative frenzy is building up," Teymoor Nabili, Al Jazeera's correspondent, reporting from Tehran, said.

Mousavi called a news conference in Tehran to claim victory soon after voting came to an end.

"In line with the information we have received, I am the winner of this election by a substantial margin," he said. "We expect to celebrate with people soon."

Only minutes earlier, close Mousavi aide Ali Akbar Mohatshemi-Pour was reported by the AFP news agency as saying his candidate had won 65 per cent of the vote.

But IRNA, Iran's official news agency, soon afterwards announced that Ahmadinejad had won re-election.

"Doctor Ahmadinejad, by getting a majority of the votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election," the news agency said.
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Now all they need to do is revolt against the real leaders, the Islamic clerics.

Iran voting to replace it's President has the same impact on it's government affairs as the US voting to replace the White house press secretary.
 
This would be great news except both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are claiming victory. The Irainian people want freedom, here is the problem, the president in Iran dosn't have much power. He is a mere mouth piece for the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i and the other ayatollahs and mullahs.
 
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This would be great news except both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are claiming victory. The Irainian people want freedom, here is the problem, the president in Iran dosn't have much power. He is a mere mouth piece for the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i and the other ayatollahs and mullahs.
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Very true.

But, it does send a huge message to the Ayatollah. It does tell him what his people are thinking and which direction they're leaning. It also tells him where he can expect trouble.

There's also the Revolutionary Guard to consider. They're not always an apolitical entity.

Here's the latest on the polls:
Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Ahmadinejad 'leads Iran poll count'
Ahmadinejad 'leads Iran poll count'

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's incumbent president, has taken a commanding lead in his bid for re-election with more than two-thirds of ballot boxes counted, Iran's interior ministry has said.

Ahmadinejad is currently ahead with 65.2 per cent of the 28 million ballots counted against 31 per cent for Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main rival.
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SgtRock said:
This would be great news except both Ahmadinejad and Mousavi are claiming victory. The Irainian people want freedom, here is the problem, the president in Iran dosn't have much power. He is a mere mouth piece for the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i and the other ayatollahs and mullahs.
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Ahmadinejad's campaign made it very clear that if Ahmadinejad lost that they would call voter fraud and try to invalidate all the votes. That's what we are seeing now.
 
danarhea said:
Ahmadinejad has been beaten by Mir Hossein Moussavi in the election in Iran, which has just ended.

On a personal note, this is fantastic news. My boss' brother is Jamal Khanjani, who is one of the 7 Iranian national Bahai leaders that the Iranian government has been trying to execute, and who still languishes in Evin Prison. His crime? Worshiping God. Moussavi has vowed to set them free, and in a sweeping acclamation of human rights, Moussavi's wife, who is also his running mate, made a quote about how man and woman are two wings of a bird, and a bird cannot fly without both: This was taken directly from Bahai scripture.

Change may be afoot in Iran, as the people have demonstrated that they do not accept the present status quo. The Mullahs had better take notice. They do it not at their own peril.

Article is here.
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Meh it's the same old **** just another pre-screened puppet of the Ayatollah. The elections in Iran are an irrelevant farce in actuality less meaningful than the elections in the Soviet Union post Stalin.
 
Iranian elections seem to be just as corrupt and ridiculous as U.S. ones.

What a shock ...
 
Picaro said:
Iranian elections seem to be just as corrupt and ridiculous as U.S. ones.

What a shock ...
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The Iranian system is nothing like that of the U.S..

There theocratic system is one in which all national candidates must be pre-approved by the Guardian Council, one where half of the Guardian Council is selected directly by the Supreme Leader and the other half are selected by the Majilis (who again are pre-screened by the Guardian Council) out of a list of jurists who are selected by the head of the Judiciary who is selected directly by the Supreme Leader, and where the Assembly of Experts who choose the Supreme Leader are chosen amongst a pre-screened list vetted by the Guardian Council, and an expediency council which solves disputes between the pre-screened Majilis and the directly and indirectly selected Guardian Council are selected directly by the Supreme Leader.

It's a closed circle of power in which the Supreme Leader rules . . . well Supreme.
 
Ahmadinejad re-elected in Iran, Mousavi cries foul

Ahmadinejad re-elected in Iran, Mousavi cries foul
By Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl, Reuters
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TEHRAN — Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad resoundingly won Iran's election, preliminary official results showed on Saturday, but his moderate challenger alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.

The level of the incumbent's support, nearly twice as many votes as former Prime Minister Mirhossein Mousavi with most ballots counted from Friday's poll, confounded widespread expectations that the race would at least go to a second round.

Ahmadinejad's re-election is likely to disappoint Western powers aiming to convince Iran to halt work they suspect is aimed at making bombs, and could further complicate efforts by U.S. President Barack Obama to reach out to Tehran.

"It doesn't augur well for an early and peaceful settlement of the nuclear dispute," said Mark Fitzpatrick at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Ahmadinejad scores big win in Iran vote | Comcast.net

Israel has had its fears assured. Looks like either they will have to attack on their own and hand the west a war or the west will have to back up its rhetoric instead of watching them develop nuclear weapons and accept a war.

Iran will play Obama like a fiddle....
 
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Now there's a rigged election. Record disapproval ratings. High youth voter turnout.

And Disco Stu wins?

R-I-G-G-E-D.

The 67% for Disco Stu is clearly rigged. If the Mullahs were not scared, they wouldn't have shutdown text messaging, facebook, Myspace and other non-controlled news outlets.
 
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Triad said:
Israel has had its fears assured. Looks like either they will have to attack on their own and hand the west a war or the west will have to back up its rhetoric instead of watching them develop nuclear weapons and accept a war.

Iran will play Obama like a fiddle....
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Then i guess Israel will be on its own against Iran.
We are in a recession, screw Iran.

Election was rigged, i'm sceptical of the results
 
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How can an election travel from too close to call on election-eve to such a lopsided victory for the unpopular incumbant Ahmadinejad? Election fraud on a massive scale. Right in your face.

Not that it really matters in the slightest. The ruling clerics have clearly demonstrated once again who actually runs the dog and pony show in Iran.
 
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There will be no liberty for the people of Iran until they take matters into their own hands and throw of the shackles of theocratic oppression through armed revolution. The Mullahs will not freely give up one iota of power on their own unless they are made to do so at gun point.
 
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The outcome is disappointing. While a reformist victory was never assured, the kind of runaway victory reported for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is inconsistent with the polling just before the election that showed a fairly close race and good prospects of a run-off.

It is quite likely that the conservative clerics led by Ayatollah Khamenei worked behind the scenes to produce the outcome. Khamenei was not a neutral bystander in the election process. He actively worked to secure an Ahmadinejad re-election. For example, on May 19, 2009, The Los Angeles Times reported:

Iran's most powerful political and spiritual leader warned voters Monday against supporting pro-Western candidates in next month's presidential election, comments widely seen as supporting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's approach to foreign policy over those of his challengers.

"Those who submit to the enemies and bring shame on the nation should not come to power by the people's vote," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a speech in the western town of Bijar.
 
The Iranian system is nothing like that of the U.S..
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Different titles, different people, same general procedure. Nobody in the U.S. gets within actual winning distance of the White House that hasn't been properly groomed and vetted by one of the Establishment's 'parties'. That definitely includes Obama as well, despite all the smoke and hubris put out by the likes of Daily Kos and the National Review.

The last big scare for the Establishment was George McGovern, due to a weakness in the Democratic Party's procedures, but that flaw was corrected in 1984, by implementing the 'Super Delegate' scheme, which once and for all made any sort of populist threat from that wing utterly impossible.
 
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Apocalypse said:
Well Israel has made it clear that it's not going to solve the Iranian problem for the West.
It is YOU who are 'on your own'. :2razz:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/middl...does-not-intend-bomb-iran.html#post1058060426
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Lieberman tells reporters in Moscow that other countries in region, around world should be concerned
about Islamic republic's nuclear program but should not expect Israel to solve this problem for them
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Why should we be worried?
No offence but it is not the west he has threatened nor are we surrounded by hostile countries that doesn't want us there.
I'm almost 100% certain UK will not suddenly be under attack from Iran in ME so it is num 10 on my 'to worry' list. It is Israel who is in danger, not the west.
It has been your leader who has been harping and whining on about Iran non stop since he has been elected. So yes, we'll do fine 'on our own'
 
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Laila said:
Why should we be worried?
No offence but it is not the west he has threatened nor are we surrounded by hostile countries that doesn't want us there.
I'm almost 100% certain UK will not be suddenly under attack from Iran in ME so it is num 10 on my 'to worry' list. It is Israel who is in danger, not the west.
It has been your leader who has been harping and whining on about Iran non stop since he has been elected. So yes, we'll do fine 'on our own'
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Um they have regular state sponsored "death to America" rallies in Iran.
 
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