Mir-Hossein Mousavi on Twitter
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- “ALL internet & mobile networks are cut. We ask everyone in Tehran to go onto their rooftops and shout ALAHO AKBAR in protest #IranElection.” That was the Twitter message from Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, the fifth, and last, prime minister of the Islamic republic of Iran from 1981 to 1989, and a candidate for the 2009 Iran presidential election.
“The main Iranian opposition on Monday postponed a major rally to challenge the disputed presidential election, as the country’s supreme leader called for calm after days of street protests,” says the New York Times, continuing:
“In an unusual broadcast repeated every 15 minutes on state radio, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, was quoted as telling the main opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Moussavi, to pursue his objections to the election result calmly and legally.”
But today, “Mousavi & Karoubi will be on the way to the protest to ask people to remain calm http://is.gd/12m1a, said MirHossein Mousavi on his Twitter page, which at 3:57 am Pacific had 5,479 followers, and then at 4:12 am »»»
@Change_for_Iran @gkarbaschi confirmed on twitter 4pm today rally will go ahead, he asks everyone to join Mouasvi & Karoubi #IranElection
Karroubi is reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi, and the picture on the right is from a Flickr stream carrying current photos of demonstrations in Tehran as bloggers protest the claimed ‘win’ by Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
“Germany’s foreign minister summoned Iran’s ambassador for a dressing-down over the tactics employed by baton-wielding police on Saturday and Sunday against demonstrators who say the outcome of the election was rigged,” says Agence France-Presse.
“The actions of the Iranian security forces are completely unacceptable,” Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on public television,” it says, going on:
“Steinmeier also called on Iran to clear up ‘immediately and without delay’ allegations of irregularities in the election, which according to official results was won resoundingly by Ahmadinejad.
“His comments echoed similar doubts raised in Washington …”
But Ahmadinejad has, “dismissed the opposition’s allegations of fraud, saying that the victory had given him a bigger mandate than ever,” says the NYT, adding:
“He criticized Mr. Moussavi, the main opposition candidate — who remained at home on Sunday with security forces closely monitoring his movements — in a veiled statement that many here saw as a threat.
” ‘He ran a red light, and he got a traffic ticket,’ Mr. Ahmadinejad said of his rival during a news conference at the presidential palace.”
At 4:22 am, “CONFIRMED BY BBC PERSIAN, PLEASE TELL EVERYONE TO JOIN THEM: MOUSAVI, KAROUBI & KHATAMI WILL BE AT THE PROTEST. #IranElection,” says Mousavi on Twitter.
Stay tuned.
June, 2009
New York Times – Iran Bans Opposition Rally as Critics Are Detained, June 15, 2009 Agence France-Presse – Iran faces backlash over protest crackdown, June 15, 2009
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June 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
long live the uprising . long live democracy. down with the mullahs , down with the dictators
June 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
and when the very same bullshit happened in Quebec at the last referendum, there was no international outcry. Legit votes were tossed out and removed in favor for the separatists.
Lets not forget the hackable voting machines in the states and the boxes upon boxes of votes that disappeared.
I think Canada and the US should be looking in their very own back yard before commenting. Same shit happens in both these countries.
June 15th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Hi Muhamad,
Don’t compare Quebec to Iran, our institutions have a solid legal backbone and the Directeur Général des élections keeps thing in a good order. Some tactics like the illegal renting of buses from outside Quebec against sovereignist should reassure you that there were small irregularities on both side.
But ultimately remember that theses irregularities against the sovereinist movement is what cost the Canadian government to loose the electsion (does “Scandale des commandites” ring a Bell?). But at the same time, the sovereinist also lost their referandum! This is a good example how democracy worked pretty well in either case. Let’s hope Quebec example can be used as an example everywhere.
In my opinion.. not the same and far from being the same.
June 15th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Vote rigging is vote rigging.
The Quebec, US, and Florida examples are no different.
It happens in Canada, it happens in the US, it’s happening in Iran.
Same thing.
“our institutions have a solid legal backbone and the Directeur Général des élections keeps thing in a good order.”
LOL That was a joke right? And what did the “Directeur Général des élections” do about the votes that were thrown out for no reason? What happened to those that did it again?
June 16th, 2009 at 1:12 am
we must be intelligent and never be angry monday demonstration is favorite democratic demonstration and smooth they said wo are iranian people not chips( siraws)
June 16th, 2009 at 1:16 am
we must be very intelligent i think monday evening is biggest democracy demonstration in iran and we have this supporting from young people