Ahmadinejad close to a landslide victory

[joeblow]

Ahmadinejad close to a landslide victory
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:45:05 GMT

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=9 ... =351020101


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad casts his ballot for the Iranian presidential election in Tehran June 12, 2009.

Preliminary results show that Iran's incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the elections in a landslide victory, gaining more than 64 percent of the votes.

His campaign manager Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi has already claimed victory.

According to reports from the Election Commission Headquarters, the latest statistics announced by the Iranian electoral officials show 36 million (94 percent) of the ballots have been counted so far with Ahmadinejad winning 64.77 percent of votes.

It is expected that official results will be announced shortly.

Former prime minister, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who had earlier claimed victory with 54 percent of the votes, has so far gained 32.57 percent of the votes that were counted up to 9:30 a.m. local time (0500 GMT).

Results show that former IRGC Commander, Mohsen Rezaei, won 1.66 percent of the votes and two-time parliament (Majlis) speaker Mehdi Karroubi (1989-1992 and 2000-2004) grabbed 0.83 percent.

Mousavi complained of irregularities in the election, including a shortage of ballot papers and attacks on his campaign offices.

He said his election monitors were not allowed enough access to polling stations, adding that he would deal seriously with any fraud.

Samareh Hashemi, however, dismissed Mousavi's remarks.

"According to the votes counted so far, the distance between Ahmadinejad and his rivals is so great that any doubts cast on this victory will be treated as a joke by the public," he was quoted as saying by Fars news agency.

Officials estimate the voter turnout at around 80 percent.

RZS/SME/AKM/DT

[hurensohn]

Do jew ever see the american canidates move around people like Ahmadinejad or do they suspect they'd be assasinated?

[joeblow]

Do jew ever see the american canidates move around people like Ahmadinejad or do they suspect they'd be assasinated?

Obviously, a rhetorical question that doesn't need to be answered.  :lol:

[Christopher Marlowe]

I would like your take on the recent allegations of fraud in the last Iranian election.  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ju ... savi/print

The defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi claimed that on Friday night, he had been informed by the interior ministry that he had won the election convincingly. That claim was first published on a popular website that was subsequently closed down.

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered an investigation into claims vote-rigging.

Ahmadinejad has rejected claims of fraud as a "psychological war" by the foreign media.

At the bottom of the another article (that basically made a case for voter fraud):

"Two US think tank analysts said today that the official results were consistent with an independent telephone poll they conducted three weeks before the vote, which showed Ahmadinejad leading by a two to one margin.

Ken Ballen, the president of Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion, which studies attitudes toward extremism, and Patrick Doherty, of the New America Foundation, wrote in today's Washington Post: "While Western news reports from Tehran in the days leading up to the voting portrayed an Iranian public enthusiastic about Ahmadinejad's principal opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, our scientific sampling from across all 30 of Iran's provinces showed Ahmadinejad well ahead"."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ju ... is-figures

I have read suggestions that Mousavi was a puppet backed by CIA.  In that vein, here's an interesting article: "Mir-Hossein Mousavi's Iran/Contra Connection?"

http://debatebothsides.com/showthread.php?t=78659
 Quotes are from this article:

"What do Michael Ledeen (the American 'neo-conservative'), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (the Iranian presidential candidate of 'chagne') and Adnan Khashoggi (the opulent Saudi Arabian jet-setter) have in common?

"They are all good friends and associates of Manuchehr Ghorbanifar (an Iranian arms merchant, an alleged MOSSAD double agent, and a key figure in the Iran/Contra Affair..."

"[From] the Walsh Report on the Iran/Contra affair. In Chapter 8, for example, we learn:

"Ghorbanifar, an Iranian exile and former CIA informant who had been discredited by the agency as a fabricator, was a driving force behind these proposals [for arms-for-hostages deal];" or, "Ghorbanifar, as broker for Iran, borrowed funds for the weapons payments from Khashoggi, who loaned millions of dollars to Ghorbanifar in "bridge financing'" for the deals. Ghorbanifar repaid Khashoggi with a 20 percent commission after being paid by the Iranians," (see: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_08.htm).

"Here is a bit from an article by Time magazine that shows Ghorbanifar's circle of associates; it is from a January 1987 cover story (The Murky World of Weapons Dealers; January 19, 1987):

"By [Ghorbanifar's] own account he was a refugee from the revolutionary government of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, which confiscated his businesses in Iran, yet he later became a trusted friend and kitchen adviser to Mir Hussein Mousavi, Prime Minister in the Khomeini government. Some U.S. officials who have dealt with Ghorbanifar praise him highly. Says Michael Ledeen, adviser to the Pentagon on counterterrorism: "[Ghorbanifar] is one of the most honest, educated, honorable men I have ever known." Others call him a liar who, as one puts it, could not tell the truth about the clothes he is wearing," (emphasis added)."

--> The recent MSM charges of voter fraud, (which cite: 1) an unnamed source in the Iranian government; 2) a conflicting "government poll"; 3) a BBC poll of ex-pat Iranians in London; and then bury in the last paragraphs two US polls which showed Ahmadinejad winning easily) do not seem balanced, but rather aimed toward suggesting Ahmadinejad has no rightful claim as a democratically elected leader.  

Even if these astro-turf-inspired protests do not result in a revolution, any future military tough talk aimed at Iran will surely include statements casting aspersions on Ahmadinejad's legitimacy.  Then the media will take up the chorus (a la: "I invented the internet"; "wipe israel from the map"; "6 million gassed".)  Finally, when the US is considering a nuclear strike, we will get the current equivalent of Tony Blair in 2003: (i.e. somebody who has some credibility because the world has not yet found out that he is a total ass-hole) saying he is a "tyrant".

"And now the world has to learn the lesson all over again that weakness in the face of a threat from a tyrant, is the surest way not to peace but to war." – Tony Blair's Iraq speech in Commons, 2003 18th March.

"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002

[joeblow]

I just created another thread that easily explains to a Westerner that, within Iran, it was obvious that Dr. Ahmadinejad won by a landside, only in Tehran are demonstrations by the rich upper-class who traitorously align themselves to this Soros-funded and Brzezinski-planned "Color Revolution".

[sullivan]

I would like your take on the recent allegations of fraud in the last Iranian election.

Given the margin of victory, fraud on that scale would be very difficult to pull off. Allegations of irregularities have been (diliberately?) vague and wholly unsubstantiated. I'd say it is the "poor loser" syndrome at work.

[LordLindsey]

Mike, I am very disappointed that you can't see what is so obvious to the rest of us.  "I" would NOT want to live in Iran, and I would NEVER, but that does not negate the fact that the Zionists did everything that they could do to put in a REAL puppet leader and failed miserably.  Mike, I know that you know better than what you are saying, so put your biases aside and just deal with the facts as they are.  Joe...and everyone else...is right about this; however, the incidents are playing into the hands of the Zionists and they have a win/win because of the complete control of the world media.

LINDSEY