US Media Campaign to Discredit Iranian Election
By Charting Stock
See also:- Lights turned off on media after elections: The AFP news agency
reported that Iran’s wireless telephone network was shut down at 5:30pm GMT
(10:00pm in Tehran), just as incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was making
a television appearance to congratulate himself on a "great victory".
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share their thoughts and experiences with us.
June 13, 2009 "Charting Stocks" -- -Was the Iranian election a fraud? That’s
what our great western media sources want us to believe. While scanning through
the coverage, I could not find one mainstream news article which covered the
election results in an objective, unbiased manner. Either prominently
displayed in the title or first paragraph, each of the articles suggest the
election was a fraud. The obvious question arises - If their electoral system
can’t be trusted, why were they watching the results so “closely” in the first
place? I’d probably find better things to do then obsess over the results of
a rigged game, but hey that’s just me.
It’s worth noting that Iran, unlike the US, does not use electronic voting
machines which are easily tampered with. They actually have paper ballots. It’s
also important to point out the health of their electoral process. They had an
85% turnout! We, “the champions of democracy” turnout only a fraction of that
percentage for our presidential elections. In fact 2 out of 3 American citizens
find something better to do during election day.
Reuters Iran’s election result staggers analysts
Hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defeated moderate challenger Mirhossein Mousavi
by a surprisingly wide margin in Iran’s presidential election, official results
showed on Saturday. Mousavi derided the tally as a “dangerous charade.’
Fox News: U.S. Monitoring Iran’s Election Results
U.S. officials are casting doubt over the results of Iran’s election, in which
the government declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner Saturday…U.S.
analysts find it “not credible [Notice the usual UN-NAMED "US Officials and
Analysts]
MSNBC: Violence flares as Ahmadinejad wins Iran vote
Riot police battled with protesters Saturday as officials announced that
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a landslide election victory. His
opponent denounced the results as ‘treason’….Ahmadinejad had the apparent
backing of the ruling theocracy.
CNN: Ahmadinejad wins landslide in disputed election
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been declared the big winner in the
country’s election, but his chief rival and supporters in the Tehran streets
are crying foul.
NY Times: Ahmadinejad Is Declared Victor in Iran
The Iranian government declared an outright election victory for President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday morning, and riot police officers fought with
supporters of the opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, who insisted that
the election had been stolen.
Time Magazine: Protests Greet Ahmadinejad Win in Iran: ‘It’s Not Possible!
Iran’s Interior Minister announced Saturday that incumbent president Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad had won 63.29% of the vote in the nation’s closely watched
presidential poll. The announcement, greeted with widespread skepticism by
Iranian opposition supporters and by foreign analysts, has brought thousands of
people onto the streets where they have encountered a strong police presence
and the threat of violence.
Was the election stolen? According to the Iranian Interior Minister Sadeq
Mahsouli, there has been no ‘written complaint’ about voter fraud. He declared
that the presidential elections were conducted in a manner that ruled out the
possibility of voter fraud. “No violations that may have influenced the vote
have been reported, and we have received no written complaint,” he said in
response to a question posed by an Italian reporter.
It’s also worth mentioning that contrary to what our media would have us
believe, Ahmadinejad doesn’t have much power in Iran. The President is not the
most powerful person in the country. He is not the commander in chief and does
not control the army and the intelligence and security services. He does not
have the power to go to war. Those powers are reserved for the supreme leader
of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini.
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