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State media: Ahmeanie wins reelection in Iran
The results aren’t official yet, but here’s the latest, via Reuters:
TEHRAN (Reuters) – State media declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner of Iran’s election but challenger Mirhossein Mousavi alleged irregularities and claimed victory for himself.
The state election commission said early Saturday that Ahmadinejad, a hardline conservative, was ahead with 66 percent of the votes in Friday’s election after 21 million ballots were counted.
Ahmadinejad’s main challenger, moderate former prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi, had 31 percent, according to the commission, which is part of the Interior Ministry. It said 61 percent of all ballot boxes had now been counted.
The official news agency IRNA said: “Dr Ahmadinejad, by winning most votes at the 10th presidential election, has secured his victory.” It said results would be announced at 8 a.m. (0330 GMT).
A bitterly fought campaign has generated intense excitement inside Iran and strong interest around the world, with policymakers looking for signs of a change of approach by Tehran, whose ties with the West worsened under Ahmadinejad.
Mousavi had earlier tried to pre-empt official announcements by calling a news conference at which he alleged there had been irregularities, including a shortage of ballot papers.
“I am the definite winner of this presidential election,” he declared.
It was unclear how his supporters, who thronged the streets of Tehran nightly in the run-up to Friday’s vote, might react to an Ahmadinejad victory. U.S. strategic intelligence group Stratfor called the situation “potentially explosive,” with a considerable risk of unrest.
The Guardian is liveblogging the goings on in Iran surrounding the election, as is the “Tehran Bureau” blog.
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Yeah, and you can count on our glorious leader to lend support to the unrest in Tehran, too.
NOT!
He not only has not the cajones, but he lacks any modicum of intelligence to come to that position even if he had the desire to interfere with a nation that just wants to develop nuclear capabilities for “peaceful purposes”.
What a sad “leader” we have.
I’d read on Twitter and elsewhere that the polls were held open late and the tabulations delayed. Given the enthusiasm of Moussavi’s supporters (and the size of the crowds), I’m willing to bet the same thing happened tonight as when Ahmadinejad last won: a rigged election. The mullahs saw their preferred candidate was losing, so they stuffed the ballot boxes at the end. While, Moussavi is no pro-Western reformer, his popularity with the large number of disaffected Iranians gives him a power base independent of the black-robed religious fascists who run Iran, and they couldn’t tolerate that. So they again practiced a little Chicago-style Hope-n-Change of their own.
But I sometimes think that, for us, there was no real difference among the two candidates, except perhaps one is a wee bit less of a millenarian nut. We’re really talking about shades of “Nazi” here – but they’re still Nazis.
In the end, I don’t think it makes much difference, and PBO will acquiesce to an Iranian bomb. And then God help us all.
This election was meaningless from the start. Why do so many people not see it? Even if Moussavi pulls out a win, it wouldn’t change anything. He would be under the thumbs of those maniacs that are actually in charge. Those people have made their intentions (supporting terrorists, obtaining nuclear weapons, attacking Israel) quite clear, and they can’t be voted out of office. A moderate Iranian president wouldn’t change their objectives and wouldn’t be able to anyway.
Is Acorn helpin count the *votes*?
….there was never any doubt as to the outcome of this election, despite the world media’s attempt to paint it as a horse race. Now Ahmadinejhad and his 12er pals can get back to their priority task…