Video Round-Up of Riots and Protests in the Streets of Iran Following Rigged Election »
Posted By metavirus 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The streets of Iran have erupted in waves of rioting and protests in the wake of what many are calling a nakedly rigged election result. We've compiled a video round-up of chaos in Tehran and other Iranian cities. What will this mean for the future of democracy in Iran?
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ur-land-is-my-land6 months, 3 weeks ago
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In the past 30 years of Islamic Republic of Iran this is the first ELECTION ENGINEERING and a massive fraud that actually has made a huge difference.
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In the past elections, just like elections in those countries that hold elections, there has always been irregularities, but have only amounted to petty attempt to alter the end result without being able to do it. However this time the fraud is VERY bold,obvious, dumb, unsophisticated, and it has made a huge change , stealing from the winner and handing it to Ahmadinejad. (ANJ)
SOme of the staff of interior ministry have decided to speak out and have sent a letter to all the centers of power in Iran. In that letter they outline how this election Coup d'etat was planned months ago and how it was carried out. Apparently ANJ's religious mentor ,Ayatollah Mesbah, a true Iranian version of Taliban, had issued a fatwa that said if you
realize that your candidate is losing and it is going to hurt Islam and its interests (read it :his group's interests), then you should do what ever you have to do to prevent it from happening.
This was the justification for the Coup d'etat and things are ugly as it is .
-Major opposition leaders have been arrested,
-A major religious party has called for cancellation of the election result and had asked for another election
-Mousavi has asked his folowers to gather at a certain location in Tehran tomorrow,
-reports that Mousavi and Karoubi, two candidates who were cheated out, have been placed under house arrest
-there has been violent demonstrations on Tehran's streets and other cities,
This could end up to a wide scale civil unrest, if armed forces take side, it could turn into a wide spread civil war,
so many loose ends and events are unfolding pretty fast,-
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Thinker226 months, 3 weeks ago
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It seems that this is the end of the first (and apparently, the last ) Islamic democracy.
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Despite the claims of many pro-Iranian posters here and elsewhere that the President in Iran was no more than a 'puppet' it seems that this is not the case. I would compare the President's role in Iran with the Prime Minister (or rather the Chairmen of the Council of Ministers) in the former Soviet Union. While this figure was under formal supervision of the Communist Party leadership he was far from being a "puppet".
Ahmadinejad's victory means continued Iranian attempts to achieve nuclear weapons, intensification of anti-Israeli thetoric, increase of terrorism all over the world and a very real possibility of a large scale war in the Middle East.
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