Robert Naiman wrote:
>> And, they had a plausible motivation for the Friday announcement: the
>> opposition had already declared victory - before any votes were
counted at all - and was already mobilizing protests against a "stolen
> election" based on their own expectations -...<<
Not at all.
Fars news ( a pro-AN agancy) was the first press who announced the final result
(landslide victory of AN) at about 8 pm (in Tehran's horizon), that is, two
houres before finishing the voting time, immediately after which IRNA (
another pro-AN agency) confirmed the news. Keyhan ( a fundamentalist newspaper)
seemed to provide its tomorrow headline (again, landslide victory of AN) at
about 9 pm. After all these, Mousavi announced his victory and was
congratulated by Khatami for such victory, at about 12 pm or so. Why Mosavi
did so? We didn't sleep that night, even for one moment, trying to cover all
events as far as possible. Based on the results received from several provinces
in which the counting process had finished, Mousavi realized that he is most
probably the great winner. Such sense, as I well remember, was undoubtedly
confirmed by those several friends of mine who were counting the votes in
several provinces. After these moments, we suddenly become unable to call our
friends: their all connections instruments become useless (telephone, mobile,
sms which had already disconnected,...). After this, the state TV and several
state agencies were bit by bit announcing AN's landslide victory, with a
more or less fixed ratio of voting results from the beginning to the end. As an
Iranian active citizen who has lived these events, I have no doubt that the
votes were not counted at all at that night.
Anyway, there are enough evidences for the hypothesis on a great fraud in
the election. The lengthy report delivered by Mousavi to the Guardian Council
has left no doubt. But what is important here is that the struggle is not legal
but political. As it has very recently revealed from GC' informal sessions,
even a few members of GC well aware of this. The question is not legal.
M. M.
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