Ayatollah agrees to review election results in Iran
Woman raises defiant fist against Tehran Mullahs
Update: Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei – the supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran – has agreed to take a second look at election results but instructed defeated opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to pursue his complaints through legal channels, Iran’s Press TV reported.
“Definitely, in this election, complaints should be followed through legal channels,” said Ayatollah Khamenei in a meeting with Moussavi on Sunday night, Press TV said on its website.
“The Leader said he had called on the Guardian Council to carefully review the appeal of the former prime minister,” added a short report on Press TV.
“In previous elections, certain individuals and candidates had complains which were pursued through the Guardian Council as the only legal body in charge of probing into election appeals,” Ayatollah Khamenei added. “It is necessary you follow the issue calmly and legally.”
Earlier, the governor general of Tehran has turned down a request by opposition leader Mousavi for his supporters to hold rallies in various parts of Iran, according to government funded Press TV.
“Governor General of Tehran Morteza Tamaddon has rejected reports a permit for staging rallies for Moussavi supporters across Iran has been issued,” Press TV said.
“The rallies are and remain illegal. The police will stop any unauthorized rallies or gatherings,” he added.
Moussavi supporters have taken to the streets over the past two consecutive days since the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president to express their disbelief at the election’s results.TV, Press TV said in one of the first accounts of the dissent that has followed the re-election of Ahmadinejad.
Iranian government run media reported Ahmadinejad has received congratulatory messages from Hezbollah, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Russia. Several other countries have expressed reservations about the fairness and the heavy-handed response to demonstrations.
Earlier Story: Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi urged his followers to continue their Green Revolution and to resist a “dangerous plot” to empower “lies and dictatorships” as rioting continued for a second day in response to what his followers describe as a rigged presidential election.
In the first direct challenge to the Theocratic Mullahs of Iran and to hardliner Ahmadinejad who claimed to have won 65 per cent of the vote, tens of thousands fought battles with riot police and burned vehicles and shops in major cities across Iran, including Tehran and Shiraz.
Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said Saturday that the voter turnout of 80 per cent was a vote cast in favour of the president was a cause for celebration, according to the Islamic Republic’s news agency IRNA.
“In an important message, issued after the 10th Presidential Elections on June 12, Ayatollah Khamenei said that the enemies are creating provocations out of ill-wish in order not to let the Iranian nation be joyful and happy about the election results,” IRNA quoted Khamenei as saying.
Green revolution supporter fights back against riot cop
Internet reports and tweets suggested Mousavi – whose supporters, mostly youth, wore green armbands and carried green flags – was thought to be under house arrest in Tehran.
A letter issued by him was posted on the internet Saturday evening.
“In the Name of God, honorable people of Iran, the reported results of the 10th Iranians presidential Election are appalling,” he said.
“I object fully to the current procedures and obvious and abundant deviations from law on the day of election and alert people to not surrender to this dangerous plot. Dishonesty and corruption of officials as we have seen will only result in weakening the pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran and empowers lies and dictatorships,” he said.
“I am obliged, due to my religious and national duties, to expose this dangerous plot and to explain its devastating effects on the future of Iran. I am concerned that the continuation of the current situation will transform all key members of this regime into fabulists in confrontation with the nation and seriously jeopardize them in this world and the next,” he added.
“We will continue with our green wave of rationality that is inspired by our religious leanings and our love for prophet Mohammad and will confront the rampage of lies that has appeared and marked the image of our nation. However we will not allow our movement to become blind one,” Mousavi said defiantly.
“I thank every citizen who took part in spreading this green message by becoming a campaigner and all official and self organized campaigns, I insist that their presence is essential until we achieve results deserving of our country.”
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on Jun 14 2009. Filed under Featured, More News, World.
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