Protests Greet Ahmadinejad Win in Iran: 'It's Not Possible!'

Time ^ | June 13, 2009 | Nahid Siamdoust

[StilettoRaksha]

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. (See TIME's photos of election day in Iran)

Rumors of vote rigging had been flying for hours before the official announcement. At about 11 p.m. Friday, less than an hour after polls closed, reformist challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi held a press conference and declared that he knew — based on the observations of his campaign officials at polling booths — that he had won a majority of the vote. But rigging was already underway, said Mousavi, who warned that he and the people would stage mass protests if their votes were not respected. (See TIME's photos: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Paradox)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

There are riots and burning everywhere. Opposition websites have been blocked and the govt. has cut off all cell phones.

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23IranElection

[aruanan]

Protests Greet Ahmadinejad Win in Iran: 'It's Not Possible!'

I guess Acorn was working for change over there, too.

[calex59]

Well, at least their voters have the guts to riot and protest when the vote is rigged, unlike another country I can think of.

[DTogo]

Good for the people of Iran!

[JLS]

He should have had Carter there to certify it was all on the up and up ala Chavez.

[South40]

Send in Jimmy Carter, he’ll fix it.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

soon the Bamster will have access to all OUR cell phones...hmmm.

[edcoil]

I like the one month election cycle.

By this time in 2000, Hilliary had been running for 5 months.

[Sundog]

Beer must be hard to come by over there.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

NEWSWEAK calling it a ‘Coup d’Etat’.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/201956

[Yankee]

Another smashing Obama foreign policy coup.

Yesterday President Mau-Mau was bragging that his groveling, weak-kneed, middling, piddling Cairo speech had precipitated a tidal wave of change in the Middle-East.

Now with this phony election, the Iranian Mullahs just flipped him a giant neon bird.

[Lion Den Dan]

The One’s Cairo speech did a lot of good.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

From a Tweet:

“Now Iran has no SMS,mobile phone use, YouTube,Facebook,BBC,Int’l TV and all pro-reformist sites are blocked.”

[eyedigress]

Does it really make any difference which terrorist won?

[ozzymandus]

Maybe Obama will shut up about how much “influence” his grovelling has had on our enemies.

(Like the chicks, though)

[BenLurkin]

based on what little i know of Iran, Tehran is the ONLY city in the nation where people embrace Values that can be thought of as ‘western”. It is possible, i suppose that the people there were simply outvoted by the 13th Century types everywhere else.

[TheBattman]

Anyone who thought that anyone would win but who the Mullahs wanted to win was mislead or ignorant.

[Nathan Zachary]

Ah, Islamic "democracy", isn't it grand? It works fine as long as only one name is on the ballot, or if two, everyone votes for the dictator in charge.

I remember Saddam Hussiens "Democracy". Although his was the only name on the ballot, western America hating leftist media were claiming it was a valid democratic process.

We will be going through the same thing in 2012, although we sort of did already, due to massive ACORN vote fraud and ballot box tampering.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Very true.