young world / 16.06.2009 / focus / Page 3
loser will win
street battles for re-election of Ahmadinejad in Iran. Mousavi challenger is verification of the results by
By Jürgen Cain Külbel
After the landslide victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's presidential elections last Friday is the weekend in Iran clashes between violent young opposition activists, spurred by numerous masked, and came to the police. The rioters, angry whether the defeat of their favorites, the 68-year old political veteran Mir Hossein Mousavi, shouting "death to the dictator," Down "with the dictatorship" or "freedom. They set fire to garbage cans, park benches and car tires, window panes of shops and banks were smashed. The Arabic TV channel Al Jazeera reported that the protesters had pelted police with stones then beaten back with batons, used tear gas and warning shots were fired. According to police, around 60 demonstrators were arrested.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had on Friday decided the presidential election, according to the Iranian news agency ISNA 62.63 percent or 24,527,516 votes for themselves. He countered then the thesis of his main challenger's campaign, the moderate conservative Mousavi, who had claimed to believe "65 percent of people that can not enjoy life in Iran." Former Prime Minister the advertised thus, improve the relationship with the U.S. and tackle reforms in the country want to come, according to the information on 33.75 percent or 13,216,411 votes.
Mousavi recognized his defeat and not accusing the country's leadership election fraud. The loser called for a cancellation of the election because of "irregularities. Such a request he submitted to the relevant Council of Guardians. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of Iran has, according to a report on state television on Monday to review the presidential election. The allegations of fraud should be investigated. Ahmadinejad dismissed all the charges strictly on his own: his re-election, the "true and free," went on the stage, "will improve the power of the country and its future. Some believed they would win, and then they have become angry. " In a speech before thousands of his constituents in Tehran's Vali Asr Square, he had said on Sunday: "The elections in Iran are the cleanest. But some inside and outside Iran out now and say that the elections had been falsified. Where are the election fraud? "
Mousavi with no small blame for the recent violence. Polling stations were open on Friday barely, as he had already publicly announced his supporters to win. Whether he exercises his London's campaign advisor Abolfazl Fateh was driven to this unusual step will probably remain his secret. It is also not the first time that his followers, mainly originating from the upper classes of the country and wealthy Iranians rioted. Late in the evening of 4 June, minutes after the first, thus the historic battle of words between incumbent and challenger in Iran's state television, they celebrated in the streets in Niavaran Mousavi, Tehran in the north, as the next winner. About 60 of his "fans" tried "to local" Center for Strategic Studies, part of the State Expediency to break. Having been prevented by the police were, they rampaged into the early morning hours on the streets.
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