Ahmadinejad wins election

[ajpirzada]

TEHRAN: Incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been re-elected to office, Iranian state news agency IRNA announced on Friday. “Dr Ahmadinejad, by obtaining 69 percent of the total votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election,” the electoral commissioner said. “Based on the evaluation of Ahmadinejad’s position he is ahead ... with 60 percent of the votes,” said Ali Asghar Zarei, a close aide to Ahmadinejad. afp
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

[ajpirzada]

I’m the winner, claims Mousavi

TEHRAN: Former Iranian premier Mir Hossein Mousavi claimed on Friday that he had won a landslide victory in the presidential election. “I am the winner of this election by a substantial margin,” Mousavi told a news conference in Tehran. “According to the information received from the provinces and from Tehran, Mousavi has gotten 65 percent of the votes cast,” close Mousavi aide Ali Akbar Mohatshemi-Pour said. afp
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

[gubbi]

Geez, you could atleast wait till the results are announced, by credible sources.
Whats the point of posting this misleading drivel from such a fly-by-night source?

[idune]

Latest figures in Iran’s Presidential Elections (updated)

Tehran, June 13, IRNA – According to the latest results of Iran’s Presidential Election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has got 65.96 percent of the votes.

Head of the Elections Headquarters Kamran Daneshjoo told reporters Saturday morning that 31,369 ballot boxes had been counted until 3:40 am which were 68 percent of the total boxes.

According to Daneshjoo, out of 24,122,777 counted votes, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has got 15,913,256 votes which constitutes 65.96 percent of the total counted votes.

Mir Hossein Moussavi has got 7,526,117 votes which is 31.19 percent, Mohsen Rezaee has got 470,549 votes that is 1.95 percent and Mahdi Karroubi has got only 212,855 votes which is 0.88 percent.

http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory...1&IdLanguage=3

[idune]

It from official Iranian source Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the election. While US, zion and EU watched with unprecedented coverage to Iranian election and tacit support for Hossein Moussavi. It will be very disappointing for US policy pushers and tonight plan B on Iran will be in play. There will be certain ramification for Pakistan and hope Pakistani intelligence and strategists rightly identify and act on those.

[AgNoStIc MuSliM]

Originally Posted by gubbi

Geez, you could atleast wait till the results are announced, by credible sources.
Whats the point of posting this misleading drivel from such a fly-by-night source?

Daily Times is using AFP for its source in both articles.

Its a pretty decent paper - leans liberal in the Pakistani media scene, compared to the more right-wing The News and centrist to liberal Dawn.

[AgNoStIc MuSliM]

Originally Posted by idune

Latest figures in Iran’s Presidential Elections (updated)

Tehran, June 13, IRNA – According to the latest results of Iran’s Presidential Election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has got 65.96 percent of the votes.

Head of the Elections Headquarters Kamran Daneshjoo told reporters Saturday morning that 31,369 ballot boxes had been counted until 3:40 am which were 68 percent of the total boxes.

According to Daneshjoo, out of 24,122,777 counted votes, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has got 15,913,256 votes which constitutes 65.96 percent of the total counted votes.

Mir Hossein Moussavi has got 7,526,117 votes which is 31.19 percent, Mohsen Rezaee has got 470,549 votes that is 1.95 percent and Mahdi Karroubi has got only 212,855 votes which is 0.88 percent.

http://www.irna.ir/En/View/FullStory...1&IdLanguage=3

If those results hold, then this is not even close - its a landslide. Though listening to the US media one would have thought that MA was on his way out, or woudl only win by a squeaker, limiting his perceived mandate.

If MA wins this overwhelmingly, and the elections are considered largely free and fair, then that will give MA new found confidence and strength, and indicate he has widespread support for his policies.

A shocker indeed - though the ultimate power center would have remained in other hands regardless of who won.

[idune]

I have been following this election closely. My friends from Tehran, Shiraz and Esfahan told me MA has broad support in all over Iran including south and eastern Tehran where population are not as weathy as north of Tehran. And Moussavi support were mostly in north of Tehran where his supporters gone wild over last few days before election. Western media widely covered Moussavi supporters and their out of norm activities. But as we know now MA broad supporters have spoken.

[TruthSeeker]

Originally Posted by AgNoStIc MuSliM

If those results hold, then this is not even close - its a landslide. Though listening to the US media one would have thought that MA was on his way out, or woudl only win by a squeaker, limiting his perceived mandate.

Yes, our US media has portrayed the election as being very close or MA losing. If MA wins overwhelmingly then this shows how unreliable are the mainstream US and European news sources. The problem is that they go into stories with a preconceived agenda and then find support for their spin on the story. It's very frustrating to have to rely on journalists who haven't a clue about what is really happening and substitute their own biases and opinions for news. They are too lazy to do actual old fashion fact reporting.

[Al Khwarizmi]

Israel tacticians want Mahmoud Ahmadinejad win

(from theaustralian.news.com.au)

A SENIOR Israeli official said yesterday the consensus among his colleagues in Jerusalem was that a victory for the hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Iranian elections would be in Israel's best interest.

"His extremism and his calls for Israel's destruction have pushed the international community to try to head off Iran's nuclear program," he said.

A victory by the relatively moderate Mir Hossein Mousavi would not stop the nuclear program, the official said, but it could lull the international community into thinking the threat was over.

Since Mr Ahmadinajad's election in 2005, he has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped off the map, and denied the Holocaust happened. And he has argued that the Israelis were punishing the Palestinians because of what the Germans did to the Jews in World War II, and called on European leaders to provide the Jews with territory so they could move their state to that continent.

This extreme aggressiveness combined with Mr Ahmadinajad's flaunting of Iran's nuclear program has clearly marked him as Israel's leading enemy.

However, in the run-up to the Iranian polls, Mr Ahmadinejad's re-election has come to be seen as a strategic advantage. "There is no one who has served Israel's information program better than him," wrote columnist Ben Caspi in the daily Ma'ariv yesterday.

Israeli security officials note that decisions regarding major issues such as the nuclear program are made in Iran not by the president, regardless of who he is, but by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and a small group of senior clerics.

"From an operational point of view, it doesn't make a difference who wins," said one official. And a Foreign Ministry official who deals with the Iranian issue said: "From an informational point of view, he (Ahmadinejad) is the best thing that's happened to us."

The head of the Iranian desk at Israel Radio, Menashe Amir, said there was no basic difference between the four candidates for the Iranian presidency.

"The difference is in their style of speech," he said. "Ahmadinejad is blunt. The others try to cloak their real thoughts with ingratiating words. At least with Ahmadinejad his words reflect what he thinks. I'd be very happy if he's elected again."

Amir, who monitors the Iranian media closely and is in telephone communication with many Iranians, said Ayatollah Khamenei might have ordered the Republican Guard to fix the election results to ensure an Ahmadinejad victory.

"If these elections were truly free, Ahmadinejad wouldn't get more than 15per cent of the vote, mostly from rural areas," he said.

Another reason some Israelis are hoping for an Ahmadinejad victory, while holding their nose, is that the unprecedented level of passion that has been revealed by the Iranian election campaign during the past few weeks, particularly among young voters, may be a signal that the long-awaited social explosion against clerical restrictions may be close, even imminent. The emotional engagement of voters is seen as higher than that in the 1997 elections, which brought reformer Mohammad Khatami to power.

If Mr Ahmadinejad is chosen for another four years, particularly if the victory is seen to be the result of ballot manipulation, the country could erupt.

Israel officials have noted the warning by a senior figure in the Republican Guard that his forces would confront any attempt at a "velvet revolution" by Mousavi supporters similar to the street demonstrations that brought down the Czech government in 1989.

There is concern that a Mousavi victory would make it more likely that Washington would arrive at an agreement with Tehran permitting Iran to build nuclear energy reactors for peaceful purposes, as US President Barack Obama suggested in his Cairo speech this month. This would put Iran only a few months away from achieving a nuclear weapon, if it wanted to build one.

Israelis have no ill-feelings towards Iran and admire its culture. The two countries have no common border and have never engaged in a war, although the Islamic Republic actively supports Hezbollah and the Palestinian militants.

Israelis have never understood the virulence that Iranian leaders, particularly Mr Ahmadinejad, express towards Israel. Iran has the largest community of Jews in the Muslim world, and they are permitted to practise their religion freely, and are represented in the Iranian parliament. A large number of former Iranian Jews live in Israel, among them two ex-chiefs of staff, a former air force commander and a former president.

In contrast to the sophisticated assessments of Israeli strategists, however, the bulk of the public would feel reassured by a victory for the Iranian moderates.

[IceCold]

Congrulations to him on winning the elections. A right man to take Iran forward without felling for the imperialist/zionist agenda. Wonder when will we have a similar man in Pakistan who can take Pakistan forward without going to Washington.

[Al Khwarizmi]

Take a look at this:

Ahmadinejad's 'Jewish Family' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

[idune]

Originally Posted by Al Khwarizmi

Take a look at this:

Ahmadinejad's 'Jewish Family' - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2009

Western-zion axis invested a lot for Moussavi win. As usual western-Zion spin has started for their plan B. Second sign of plan B, US special envoy was going to Syria to move them away from Iran. First sign was Obama directly delivered the deception on how Iran will be harmful to Arabs.

[jeypore]

Originally Posted by idune

Western-zion axis invested a lot for Moussavi win. As usual western-Zion spin has started for their plan B. Second sign of plan B, US special envoy was going to Syria to move them away from Iran. First sign was Obama directly delivered the deception on how Iran will be harmful to Arabs.

That is funny Arabs feels the same way as Obama does!!!

[Al-zakir]

Mubarak to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for decisive second time win. He is humble and represent the less fortunate. Iranian made right choice as they sent a strong signal to anti-Islamic force. Our people need the same if desire to live with dignity. May Allah guide him to live and set a good example of our Kalif