Junge Welt 11.7.2009 / focus / Page 3
"The Iranians want change"
presidential election makes it necessary domestic adjustments significantly. Patronized by rich countries is not acceptable. A conversation with Ali Reza Sheikh Attar
Interview: Jürgen Cain Külbel
Ali Reza Sheikh Attar
Photo : Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran His Excellency Ali Reza Sheikh Attar is an ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Berlin
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced on Tuesday on Iranian state television a "new era of cooperation" in the domestic and foreign policy. What changes pave itself?
The outcome of the presidential elections of 12 June has enormous significance for us. 85 percent of the population, or 40 million of 46 million eligible voters went to the polls. This is not only a world record, but also Iranian record. The people have so that the system that evolved in the thirty years after the Islamic Revolution despite all the difficulties confirmed. With the backing of such security and We continue our work in the domestic and foreign policy. In foreign policy, this means Iran, which has political, economic, science, culture, history, a great potential in geopolitics plays a significant role, to the first power in the region has led to. The election has also shown that people want change. A sizeable part of the Iranians had finally decided on the presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi. Therefore will have some internal political change in management policy.
this regard, President Ahmadinejad announced a cabinet reshuffle. What will concern the Minister?
first place, it's about justice for the poor. Minister, did not meet the needs of the poorer strata of the population have to pack their bags. The President also insisted that he would be "president of all." So he wants to meet the demands of the opposition. All people should be treated according to their skills and qualifications meet, quite a claim with Islamic coloring. The message "oil on the dining tables' has lost nothing of its symbolism, because the president will continue his battle against the camp in the Iranian society, which is greatly enriched by cronyism and corruption and had further enriched. In foreign policy, it's go increasingly to justice. There are some countries that have more power and money and remove therefore, to decide the fate of other nations. This is no longer accepted.
The Iranian opposition if they are designated as such may wish to overcome the discrimination against women.
women have always played a crucial role in society. Discrimination means, for example, that women in some Arab countries allied with the United States is not even allowed to drive. Where is the outcry? Naturally fall in our Society women's rights with Islamic precepts, which are our way of life based on, together. But our religion was the first of the world that had granted the woman to economic independence. Where is Europe was a hundred years?
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad described the presidential election of 12 June 2009 referred to the TV appearance as the "freest election in the world." Large parts of the West, the Iranian opposition in exile and see the completely different.
There were 50 000 polling stations in the country. In each polling station, usually schools or mosques, based on seven selected local people who no particular party or movement who were members of the election. Every presidential candidate is also an observer. After the polls closed were all these people, including representatives of the candidates, the votes. They drew from five documents containing the results of the vote. Impossible that conspire seven independent person to mark already in place at each box, a fraud. This is absurd.
The opposition accuses the government in spite of everything still in front of massive vote-rigging. How is this criticism of the world are made?
The elections in Iran is correct! It's not new to the world that the losing candidate's Expressed dissatisfaction over the election outcome. The U.S. Democrat Al Gore has recognized as the result of the U.S. presidential election of 2000, in which he made over half a million votes more to unite than to George W. Bush, never. Or we look to Mexico. There, Felipe Calderón was declared in the presidential election in 2006 against the leftist candidate Manuel Lopez Obrador as the winner. Obrador disputes the election result, mobilized for weeks in Mexico City's supporters, who even lived in tent cities. He even called up a rival government. It's like playing football: the warring sides have to accept the decisions of the referees. Nevertheless
Opposition calls for the elections.
The Government established the basis of this requirement is an independent body that a suitable mechanism for clarification sought and found: There were ten percent of all votes at random in front of running TV cameras - the Iranian public therefore took part in the review - new counted. Any manipulation possibility was excluded. And no other result than was reached by the election day of 12 June. Recently the government has even extended the deadlines for further protests and lawsuits. In addition, commissions are set up by volunteers or recruit just interested citizens, the further actions and deal with complaints.
President Ahmadinejad accused Western governments of "interference" in the Iranian election and advised, in the future than ever, international act decisively. The main allegations made against London. Can you be more specific?
Our country did with the great powers, Britain, Russia, the United States in the last hundred years are not good experiences. The sting is deep, and sensitivity to any kind of outside interference is actually increasing. The British government set up BBC as exactly eight months before the presidential election, a Persian-language Transmitter, where the program had only one focus: the elections. Immediately after the elections, he appeared little more than radio stations, but as a headquarters for civil disobedience, which then spread, where to gather the people what to do and refrain from, how they should behave. Even the Persian program of the U.S. channel Voice of America - which is fed from the pots of the U.S. budget, intended to "overthrow the regime in Iran" - claimed the elections very selective contributions, mainly with the possibilities of "regime change" in Tehran concerned.
The Ambassador of Sweden, the Czech Republic and Spain presented on behalf of the EU the Tehran Foreign Ministry sent a letter in which the immediate release of jailed Iranian workers from the British Embassy is required. Failing that, the EU would "take" further steps ...
nine Britons had been detained eight again set free, because they played a minor role as an informant for the British Embassy. Mind you, we have induced the release, as there was no pressure from the EU. The detained person is not currently questioned about the accusation that illegal footage concerned and made available to the British Embassy to have. She is assisted by one of the best lawyers in the country. Turns out that the person has violated our laws, you face a penalty. Threats by the EU only complicate the matter, they benefit nothing.
images of battered, bleeding and dying Tehran protesters went around the world. For the Western media, it was the work of armed commando units of the Basij, who hunted with sticks and iron chains protesters on motorcycles. Were the pro-government religious police out of control?
matter that the people in Germany, Great Britain, USA and other democratic countries are clubbed in demonstrations: Both the supporters of President Ahmadinejad and the candidate's demonstrated Moussaoui initially relatively peaceful. But it interfered increasingly troublemakers in between, they made sure - it says this country does not - that eight policemen were killed and injured more than four hundred were in that one hundred bank branches were set on fire, that innocent people, business people were injured, that to the dead came to bomb attacks perpetrated on the mausoleum of revolutionary leader Khomeini and gas stations. The security forces have arrested a troop of rioters, who, dressed in police uniforms or Basij, the demonstrators mixed and fueled the unrest. Mir Hossein Moussavi had distanced himself from these violent criminals. A further and significant role in the riots played terrorists of the People's Mujahedeen, a terrorist group that operates for years from Iraq against us, is funded by the U.S. and was canceled under pressure from the UK, from the EU terror list. Your agents are responsible for bloody attacks in Iran before and after the elections and for the brutalization of the protests.
conclusion: Iran expected a military attack of Israel?
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