Vote Rigging Alleged in Iranian Vote
All indicators point to a stolen election by the regime.
Rozen points to a report that the Interior Ministry first told the Mousavi people that he was the winner, only to change that verdict a few hours later:
Ghaemi also said that Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a Paris-based Iranian film director, just did an interview with Radio Farda “in which he said he can say on behalf of Mousavi HQ, that the Interior Ministry had told them they are the winners, except they can’t publicize it yet. And it was after that the events of last few hours unfolded. He was very certain in stating that.”
“It sounds to me that the Mousavi camp was at first very cautious, and this is a very, very tense phase of this issue,” Parsi told The Cable overnight Saturday. The opposition “wants to take this to Khamenei and test their assumptions and see to what extent is Khamenei going to stand by Ahmadinejad and to what extent they can they convince him not to do so.
Mr. Parsi heads up the National Iranian American Council here in the U.S. which has close ties to the government of Iran. For Parsi to question the results of the vote is a sign that it is very possible the election was not on the up-and-up.
The Weekly Standard got an email from Abbas Djavadi, with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague who has some additional news regarding the regime’s response to the election:
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a prominent film producer supporting Mousavi, who stayed in his favored candidate’s headquarters, told Radio Farda that they were called by the Election Commission well before the first results were announced. “Don’t announce Mr. Mousavi’s victory yet,” they were told by authorities. “We will gradually prepare the public and then you can proceed.”
Apparently, though, a well-prepared plan was at the works, but in a completely different direction. Isa Saharkhiz, journalist from Tehran, told Radio Farda that while the whole SMS network of the country was taken down and critical websites were blocked and newspapers closed, they disabled communication among supporters of opposition candidates and everybody started to fear that they are preparing to gradually inject the surprise “shocking news” during the night until they announce it early morning. The later into the morning, the stronger — and thus more unbelievable — Ahmadinejad started to consolidate his figures.
Unknown and partly masked mobs, meanwhile, encircled the headquarters of the two opposition candidates Mousavi and Karroubi and attacked opposition supporters with sticks and gas spray, forcing them to flee.
Rozen’s excellent report, coupled with the skepticism of someone like Parsi as well as news from Iran about crackdowns, bullying the opposition, and a cutoff of communications leads one to the inescapable conclusion that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has engineered a fraud on the Iranian people by fixing the vote to reflect an Ahmadinejad landslide.
It is possible the incumbent actually received a plurality of less than 50% which would have forced a run-off with Mr. Mousavi and the vote fraud was engineered simply to give Ahmadinejad a majority. But whether or not the president won an outright victory is beside the point; the news from Iran almost certainly points to massive fraud undertaken to give President Ahmadinejad a second term.
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48 Comments
1. Chuck Pelto:TO: Rich Moran
RE: As If….
….it wasn’t happening with US?
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:41 am 2. Chuck Pelto:[The Truth will out....]
P.S. It is my considered and honestly held opinion that our ‘President’ is a fraud.
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:42 am 3. Sherab Zangpo:No kidding !?!?
A regime that sends thousands of kids to die on the mines on the battlefields, hangs people for futile reasons every week, promises to wipe Israel off the map and builds nukes to that goal…does rig the elections ?
The audacity !
We should have talked them into behaving.
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:44 am 4. Self-hating Boomer:Maybe another six months of an American president insulting America will convert them.
ACORN is busily taking notes…
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:55 am 5. johngaltrules:Something tells me Obamamoslemcommie the Illegal setback wetback must have sent his ACORN “street organizers” to have the nuclear launchers vote.
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:01 am 6. John:The following are general statements relating to the article, but not aimed directly at the author. They are aimed at the six or so pundits who I saw on TV, last evening, discussing this on various shows…
1. Qu’elle Suprise!!! A fraudulent election in a 6th century social hell run by a repressive religious dictatorship… gee… wow… call the cops!!! quick!!!
2. At some point someone in the media from both sides of the wall are going to smoke cigarettes that aren’t “funny”, and perhaps take a shot of strong coffee – no non-fat sugar-free decaf soy latte’s now.. Then something approaching reality will take hold.
There is no IRANIAN MODERATE who is not DEAD… EXILED… DISAPPEARED… or TORTURED INTO SUBMISSION… ok? Capice? Understand? NONE… ZERO… NADDAH… Get that idiotic notion out of your reality denying heads once and for all.
Iran is a dictatorial police state run by an Oligarchy of Mullahs. 100% of everything that happens in public is a fraud for public consumption.
The Iranian serfs are unlikely to do more than whine… snivel, and slink away to hide after this is all over. Fundamentally because if they say anything they will receive one of the previously mentioned behavior modifiers.
The two “candidates” for this “election” were both madmen, brutal thugs who use murder and intimidation to get what they want from the enslaved populace.
This was no more an election than the average choosing of the leader of a street gang.
3. So please no more foolishness. Iran=Evil… Iran=Bad… Iran=Islamofascist enabler… Iran=30 years of hating and being at war with the US – even if we were too stupid to acknowledge that fact…
So the Iranian election was between one of the goons who masterminded the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and one of the goons who planned the Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut. A fools choice placed on the public stage by evil people. Who are the fools?
Three guesses and the first two don’t count.
Dang, I am tired of stupid people running things…
r/John – TMF
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:10 am 7. Gloria:It is good that the election result is fraudulent and that the Iranian people are upset with the Islamofascist leadership of the country. The best thing that could happen is that the people revolt against the crazy mullahs.
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:10 am 8. jason:Al Franken is stealing the election in MN? Outrage should start at home.
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:16 am 9. Anonymous:Well (not to be rude) but “Duh!”
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:26 am 10. blotto:Heck, Mr. Moran lives in Chicago. Maybe he is confusing local politics with Iran???
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:49 am 11. Chuck Pelto:TO: jason, et al.
RE: Heh
I’m ‘outraged’, as in 2006, I was picking up reports of how our county, state and national election was being ’stolen’.
Including a signed statement by a Democrat precinct chair of her concerns about activities by door-to-door ‘voter registration’ activities in her neighborhood.
But after she signed the document, she suddenly ‘recanted’.
I think someone ‘got to’ her.
Furthermore, as the distaff was running for the local house district, some of the neighbors, who were registered as Democrats, commented that they’d be happy to put her sign in their yard and donate money…..BUT….
….they were afraid they’d be ‘kicked out of the synagogue’.
We’re talking ‘key indicators’, here.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:55 am 12. Rob:[The Truth will out.....]
Frankly, I don’t trust any of this.
A couple weeks back this election was predicted to be a landslide for the incumbent.
Then Obama gives a speech, and the media starts talking up the ‘Obama effect’ in the Mideast, and suddenly there’s all this talk of a real contest in Iran.
And, we get the result that was initially predicted, and now the election was stolen?
The fact is, it might seem crazy, but Ahmadinejad is very popular among the poor and rural areas (and yes, they really hate us and the Jews).
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:55 am 13. whataloadacrap08:An Iranian “moderate” is one who hasn’t tried to kill you … yet.
Jun 13, 2009 - 10:58 am 14. The Unbearable Lightness of Barak:Jimmy? Jimmy? where’s Jimmy??
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:08 am 15. Chuck Pelto:TO: whataloadacrap08
RE: Heh….
…I guess that includes my brother-in-law.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:10 am 16. John:P.S. Good choice of nom des blogs……
After reading the US press for the last year, I was under the impression that once a man of hope and change like Obama was elected, the world would relax, the hardliners would melt away and the sky would fill with rainbows. Hm.
Maybe the Iranians and the North Koreans didn’t get the memo.
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:16 am 17. Chuck Pelto:TO: John
RE: Indeed
We’re talk’n REAL ‘fraud’ with the so-called ‘major media’.
Regards,
Chuck(le)
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:26 am 18. Stephen:[The Truth will out....but what will REAL people do with it....]
Seems straight forward to me…Supreme Mullah hand picks all candidates, including Mousavi. Mousavi makes lots of nice moderate noises, even his wife gets to make some nice moderate noises and arouse popular and secular sentiment. Suprise! Mahmoud wins and now mullahs have de-legitimized any opposition, as well as identifying them, resulting in a crack-down on “revolutionary enemies.”
Jun 13, 2009 - 2:10 pm 19. Dougf:So the case for this being a ’stolen’ election is what exactly ? It sounds very much like — ‘he said this’ and ‘they said that’ and the opposition was ‘confident of victory’.
That is hardly an indicator of fraud, either great or small. Maybe, just maybe all those Tehran-centric(or more precisely those ineffectual almost-middle-class-centric) folks, that reporters and others prefer to talk with and about, are NOT really representative of the masses in Iran. And that therefore, they cannot really compete even with a diminutive nutcase such as Ahmadinejad. I saw a BBC report earlier this week and he seemed remarkably popular with the women in black. IYKWIMAITYD.
Maybe there are more of those types than there are of the ‘other’ in Iran. Maybe there aren’t. But we sure won’t know that from this vantage point.
But IMAO, I don’t really think that this need be fraud at all. I think it is perhaps far worse than that. Iran as it is currently constituted is, in general, probably more sophisticated than say the infamous’Arab Street’. But NOT by much. And that is hardly a ringing indication of a great fondness for ‘nuance’.
They hang people in public by CRANES, for crying out loud. Is it truly hard to grasp that they(in general) might also vote for Ahmadinejad ?
Sure the people WE might converse with loath the guy. But others —- maybe not so much.
Jun 13, 2009 - 2:30 pm 20. john from cinncinatti:why can’t they hire an apologist who will apologize to the whole freakin world and the USA in particular, we did.
Jun 13, 2009 - 2:55 pm 21. A FINE MESS:the election wasnt honest and fair? wake up people. the whole middle east is a cesspool, and the sooner we learn to live without their oil, the better. let them kill each other, i really could not care less.
obama needs to give another “speeeeeech” to fix this. they need to understand that if they dont comply, the US will send a letter, and maybe even give another more serious speeeeeech.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:08 pm 22. ked5:Gee, who’da thunk it? /sarc
I’m sure bambi is taking notes. After all, ACORN can only get him so far, and he’ll need new tricks . . . .
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:19 pm 23. Oscar the Grump:It looks like Obama will get his wish and negotiate with Ahmadinejad.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:22 pm 24. AlexinCT:I shook my head at all the idiots that tried so hard to cover for the democrats, especially Obama, and their new strategy of engagement with Iran, by claiming Iran was democratic. Please!
In Iran the mullocracy calls the shots. And they are hostile to the US and any of its interest. Who is in charge of US policy only matters to these people insomuch as they figure a democrat will let them get away with murder. Those that claim otherwise need a serious dose of reality injected into them.
In these kinds of backward countries with oppressive leadership, elections are nothing but a well orchestrated show by the real power center to help give western idiots, whom to a fault all think that getting these evil bastards talking to them will somehow make a difference, cover. The elections are nothing but show. And when the show goes awry, we get what we are seeing now.
It should not come as a surprise that the western press, which was covering for Obama and the left, all because they have a vested interest in pushing this idiotic assertion that people like the Iranian leadership only have a grudge with us when our leader isn’t a democrat, now has egg on their face. But don’t expect them to either admit that or rethink their belief that we can engage these people honestly.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:26 pm 25. fear obama:42.4 million registered voters and Amadinnerjerkof got 62 million votes.
That other guy got nearly 30 million votes.
Iran must have a lot of illegal aliens voting.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:44 pm 26. tc:So the ACORN notetakers are a scribblin…
1. Keep polls open and ensure ALL votes are counted, and counted, and counted….check
Jun 13, 2009 - 5:13 pm 27. Tony R.:2. Claim victory prior to polls closing…—check
3. Demonize opponents—check….
4. Ensure state-run media is on the same page…—check
5. Crush resistance after the polls close——–check…
6. Hide the bodies—–
People get the Governments they deserve.
The Iranians are happy to be trampled over by religious nutjobs. The US have elected a well-meaning egotist with the political nous of a 15-year old who has no threat to offer your enemies other than empty rhetoric. The UK has been destroyed by Labour incompetence that they have kept in power for 12 years….and on it goes.
The reality is that people generally are just stupid f*cking sheep.
Jun 13, 2009 - 5:45 pm 28. john samford:Maybe some of the MSM will wake up long enough to smell the coffee;
http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryKelley/2009/06/12/the_mullahs_iran_enemy_number_1
Hitler wrote “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle/war/battle) in which he outlined exactly what he planned to do. It was a best seller, not just in Germany, but in Europe. Yet people claimed to be surprised when he actually went and did what he said he would do.
Jun 13, 2009 - 5:47 pm 29. Phil Byler:The Mad Dog Mullahs are following a plan too. They have made no secrete about their plan. Yet there are still those in the West that watch the MDM’s working their plan and refuse to accept what they are seeing.
They are fools and will get what they deserve, I just wish there was some way to avoid getting what I don’t deserve. Those fools will drag EVERYBODY down with them.
The Iranian election stolen by the mullahs? What did you expect? The Iranian Government is a mullah run theocracy in the form of a parliamentary democracy.
Jun 13, 2009 - 6:33 pm 30. Delia:This crap makes me thank GOD every day that I’m an American.
Well, at least, for now.
I refuse to wear a burka.
Jun 13, 2009 - 7:01 pm 31. Justmy2cents:Why would vote rigging there be of concern when they overlooked it when acorn did it?
Jun 13, 2009 - 7:15 pm 32. Well Educated Cad:Ahmed is a member of Acorn?!
Jun 13, 2009 - 7:32 pm 33. Banned by Huffpo:This is the future for the U.S. . . ACORN in action, when The New Messiah wins 80% of the vote in 2012.
Then declares himself “President For Life”, like his buddy Hugo.
How soon before the new internet police shut this site down?
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:04 pm 34. Banned by Huffpo:#30 Delia:
Ah, well. . . the way things are going, you might be able to dress as you please inside your own home.
Won’t be too long before you won’t be able to step outside without at least a rag on your head to keep from getting whipped. Or worse.
You tramp, you!
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:08 pm 35. Turkey Brain:What? Vote rigging in Iran? What do they think they are, Democrats?
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:29 pm 36. Oscar the Grump:#14
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:32 pm 37. Meryl:We know where jimmy was. He was in Iran making sure that this was an honest election. Honest!
6. John
“Dang, I am tired of stupid people running things…”
Sometimes a simple statement says it best.
Yours does.
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:35 pm 38. Meryl:26. tc
Your comment, in the context of alarm about Al Franken’s win expressed by others, makes me point out here that each of the steps you mention is EXACTLY the way we have seen things play out here in the People’s Republic of Minnesota. Exactly.
Al Franken stole the election on November 4. All the crap that has happened since then is just the continuum, playing out what was already in place.
Just like in Iran.
Just like what is happening in the entire United States right now.
What King Fraud is doing to us is not “being developed” day by day. He’s on a continuum that was put in place years ago. Exposure will not stop him (appraently). Shame will not stop him (since dhimmicrats are shameless). Having clear illegalities (re contract law for instance) identified by significant public figures will not stop him.
Apparently there is no one willing and able to stop him.
We are on a nasty, nasty ride and the fools running the ferris wheel are sitting around the carnival grounds, just watching to shut down anyone who tries to leave the grounds and call the cops.
Jun 13, 2009 - 8:46 pm 39. Macko:First off did antbody really think that there was going to be a legitimate election in iran. I guess the iranians think it was supposed to be although I don’t understand why.
The boobama effect and the speaches about the change coming to iran. if boobama really thought he brought change to iran with his silly speach in cairo he needs therapy.
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:07 pm 40. David P:It doesn’t matter, both candidates hail from the same stock, speak with the same voice and are puppets of the same ayatollah.
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:18 pm 41. robotech master:When i first clicked this I thought it was a prediction of obama win in 2012…. I guess you could just cut and paste it and change a few names and it will still work.
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:21 pm 42. Bad Karma:But but but, the speech by Barry fixed all of that, did you not hear how his speaking revolutionized the middle east and they now all love, adore us and are set on the right path?
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:43 pm 43. Morton Doodslag:What a rancid Islamic cesspool. Rather than wasting our time, treasure, and blood attempting to bring civilization to these enemy barbarians we should be doing everything in our power to foster the schisms rife within Islam. And we certainly should halt all immigration from this vile sewer until Muslims stop waging Jihad on our own soil. Inviting them into our homeland invites this kind of scabrous violence. May Iran burn in the hellish fires of her infinite hatred.
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:02 am 44. vivo:“Indicators point to a stolen election by the regime.”
So what’s new?
It happens even in the most democratically sophisticated countries in the world, remember?
Now what?
Jun 14, 2009 - 12:43 am 45. Mike2:The vote was rigged??? Oh gee, what a surprise!
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:09 am 46. syn:It appears ACORN is once again using thuggish tactics to win elections.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:22 am 47. Joe:Why weren’t people sent to observe? Jimmy Carter likes to run around so much, where was he? Why didn’t Obama speak up for freedom? The president missed an opportunity to do the right thing. Sorry, forgot. He is running around, being cool, and campaigning for the next mess he wants to get us in.
Jun 14, 2009 - 4:40 am 48. Delia:34. Banned by Huffpo:
“Won’t be too long before you won’t be able to step outside without at least a rag on your head to keep from getting whipped. Or worse.
You tramp, you!”
LMAO!
Check this out…Bathing suits for Muslim women:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Phg9uruAWk
Gawww. Just shoot me!
Jun 14, 2009 - 8:56 am