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February 20, 2004
More on Iran Elections

From the BlogIran newsletter:

Reports from most Iranian cities are stating about the massive popular boycott of the Islamic Clerical regime's sham elections. Millions of Iranians have stayed home and far from official ballot boxes in order to show the rejection of the Islamic republic in its totality. Reports from Tehran, Shiraz, Mashad, Kerman, Malayer, Abadan, Bookan, Esfahan, Tabriz, Marivan, Amol, Sannandaj, Rezai-e and Gonabad are all stating about dead cities in another show of massive Civil Disobedience.

The people have spoken and the clerics know it clearly and now the clerics have a choice to give up peacefuly and go back to their Mosque or resist and wait for ultimate justice by the people?

The Iranian people declared the Clerical Regime as illegitimate and has no support.

Now The EU, Japan and U.S. governments should officially declare the Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran as illegitimate and unfit to govern.

Posted by Michele at February 20, 2004 04:08 PM | TrackBack
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"TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's hard-line Islamic rulers claimed Saturday that voters dealt reformers a decisive blow with a strong turnout in disputed parliament elections, but partial returns suggested the pro-reform boycott had an impact.
With the votes tallied from more than half of Iran's 207 districts, the turnout was about 40 percent, the Interior Ministry said. If the trend holds, it would be a noticeable drop from the 67.2 percent in the last parliament elections in 2000."

"In Tehran, unofficial figures said turnout was about 35 percent. That would compare with 42 percent four years ago."

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAVBQJIXQD.html

Posted by: jeffers at February 21, 2004 06:03 AM

I wonder how much voter fraud propped those numbers up, jeffers...

Posted by: Cap'n DOC at February 21, 2004 08:20 AM

Nobody, including corpses and infants, voted more than once, Cap'n.

"Attention was focused on the turnout. State radio and television announced a 60 percent turnout. The Interior Ministry issued
no overall figure but a senior government official said between 20 and 22 million of the 46 million eligible voters had cast
ballots.

That would put the turnout at between 43 and 48 percent, sharply down on the 67 percent who voted in 2000, when
Khatami’s reformist allies won two thirds of the seats, but more than the 40 percent or less that reformists had predicted."

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=39903&d=22&m=2&y=2004

Posted by: jeffers at February 22, 2004 05:41 AM

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