Als het in jouw straatje past is zo'n menigte opeens wel overweldigend?quote:Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 16:04 schreef Tevik het volgende:
De preek (helaas alleen in het Farsi)
De overweldigende menigte roept: Lbayk Yaa Khamenie (tot u dienst o Khamenei)
quote:vr 19 jun 2009, 16:09 Iran verbiedt betoging TEHERAN - Een betoging van de Iraanse oppositieleider Mir Hossein Mousavi zaterdag in de hoofdstad Teheran is door de autoriteiten verboden. Dat maakte de gouverneur van Teheran, generaal Morteza Tamadon, vrijdag bekend, aldus het Iraanse persbureau ISNA. Opperste Leider ayatollah Ali Khamenei liet eerder op de dag tijdens het vrijdaggebed op de Universiteit van Teheran weten dat het afgelopen moet zijn met de massale straatprotesten tegen de uitslag van de presidentsverkiezingen. Volgens Mousavi is er gefraudeerd en moeten de verkiezingen opnieuw worden gedaan. Khamenei ontkende dat. De Islamitische Republiek speelt niet vals, zei hij. Mousavi heeft nog niet laten weten of hij de demonstratie afblaast.
Volgens de uitslag kreeg de huidige ultraconservatieve president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 63 procent van de kiezers achter zich
Waarom zouden ze dat moeten schuwen? Schuwen de relschoppers en vandalisten dat? Schuwt de VS en Europa dat? Jezus zou eens hebben gezegd: "... splinter ... balk ... Hypocriet! ... balk ... splinter ..."quote:Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 16:18 schreef henkway het volgende:
De religieuze dictators schuwen het bloedige geweld niet
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ja een troll account is snel gemaaktquote:
quote:RESOLUTION
Expressing support for all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law, and for other purposes.
Resolved, That the House of Representatives—
(1) expresses its support for all Iranian citizens who embrace the values of freedom, human rights, civil liberties, and rule of law;
(2) condemns the ongoing violence against demonstrators by the Government of Iran and pro-government militias, as well as the ongoing government suppression of independent electronic communication through interference with the Internet and cellphones; and
(3) affirms the universality of individual rights and the importance of democratic and fair elections.
- U.S.-Iran Groupquote:Though of course everyone supports free and fair democracies, Iran is a country in flux at the moment. If US political figures come out in strong support for Mousavi, then what? Won’t Ahmadinejad just use that to declare Mousavi is a puppet of the West? That certainly won’t do much to help the cause for reform in Iran.
quote:“It is not for us to decide who should run Iran, much less determine the real winner of the June 12 election. But we must reaffirm our strong belief that the Iranian people have a fundamental right to express their views about the future of their country freely, and without intimidation.”
Ik vraag me af of het voor de gemiddelde Amerikaan duidelijk is dat wat John McCain en consorten doen gewoon political point-scoring is. Ik bedoel, what's next, "We are all Iranians now"?quote:Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 17:37 schreef Monidique het volgende:
Ze willen alleen maar in het nieuws komen in Amerika. "Kijk eens hoe goed ik denk om al die arme onderdrukte mensen!" Het kan ze niks schelen...
Je weet geen shit zo te zien.quote:Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 15:39 schreef Grafsteentje het volgende:
ik kom zelf uit iran
dus weet er iets meer vanaf dan jullie
quote:Guards have taken back Yazdi to the hospital. He was arrested 2 days ago FROM the hospital. #iranelection20 minuten ago from web
http://twitter.com/iranriggedelectquote:Translation: Kaveh Servati (form Mousavu's camp) is releaserd. #iranelection22 minuten ago from web
quote:There can't be vote fraud because it's illegal. Any vote fraud is the fault of Jews and/or the UK. Any blood is on the hands of the protesters. Why have an election if there are just going to be protests. Basij are just protecting themselves and other law-abiding citizens. Students were killed because Basij were assassinated. If you fight back, you're accountable. Europe and the US interfered in the elections. Anybody protesting is a terrorist working for a foreign nation.
Waarschijnlijk wordt Shahab Tabatabai bedoeld. "the head of the pro Khatami association (Setad 88)"quote:Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 18:02 schreef Zith het volgende:
Wie is Shahab Talebani? Hij is blijkbaar gearresteerd en een big deal op twitter maar kon er geen wiki van vinden..
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2009/06/18/the-real-results/quote:Fisk has reported on the circulation of fliers purporting to be copies of a confidential Interior Ministry letter showing the “actual results” of the election, which I suppose we are expected to believe they sent to Khamenei as a souvenir, and is appropriately as skeptical of the ludicrous Mousavi and Karroubi numbers (totaling approximately 80% of the vote to Ahmadinejad’s 14%) as everyone has reasonably been skeptical of Ahmadinejad’s alleged 24 million votes. Of course, why the ministry would have the “actual results” on Monday, when the letter was dated, after the election had already been declared for the incumbent is one of those things the protesters would rather not think about. The 13m+ figure for Karroubi seems almost designed as a retort to the suspiciously low undercount in the official results (400,000), as if to say, “We can make up ridiculously favorable numbers just like you!” Via Clive Davis, Hooman Majd has a helpful, balanced assessment of what the real numbers for Ahmadinejad were likely to have been:
"How could the officials, after all, have altered the hand-written ballots of more than 40m citizens or counted enough ballots in such a short time? It has dawned on many Iranians there might never have been any intention to count the ballots. The Big Lie? …There is little question that Mr Ahmadinejad enjoys the support of perhaps as many as 15m Iranians, but the results adding another 10m votes to his hardcore base beggar belief. Shock and awe? You bet."
It does seem clear that the votes, or at least a great many of the votes, were never counted, and it fits with what we know that the final numbers were simply made up. Note that this in itself does not prove that the election was stolen as such (i.e., it doesn’t prove that Mousavi actually won a majority or even a plurality), but merely that the authorities had no intention of letting anyone but Ahmadinejad win. The end result may be the same, but that seems an important distinction to make. Rather than drag out the process into a second round, they wanted to be done with it as soon as possible, so why bother counting anything? That seems to make the most sense of what we have seen, but this, too, is really just speculation.
That said, the flier that Mousavi backers are now waving about as the “proof” appears to be little more than counter-propaganda. If it is incredible and absurd that Ahmadinejad won two-thirds of the vote nationwide, as so many people insist it is, it is no less absurd to think that two-thirds of the people who voted for him in 2005 abandoned him. If Majd’s estimate is even close to being right, the claim that Ahmadinejad won fewer than 6m votes is fairly laughable. Moreover, the idea that the government would go to the trouble of counting all votes after it had already decided to give the election to Ahmadinejad ahead of time is bizarre, and it is even more bizarre to think that the ministry responsible for making up the official numbers would make any kind of official record of the “actual results.” It remains probable that Ahmadinejad still won a plurality, but that no one at the highest levels wanted to take a chance that he wouldn’t, and no one wanted to run the risk of the second round going against their candidate.
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