Iranian protests - Page 3

On June 13 2009 05:12 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Hmmm, the women in those pictures appeal to me more than the election itself.

On June 14 2009 07:04 foeffa wrote:
Tx for the updates, I didn't know this was spinning out of control so rapidly. =o

U.S. analysts find it "not credible" that challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote, a senior U.S. officials told FOX News.

On June 14 2009 07:23 BuGzlToOnl wrote:


This is where I stop reading any post you make in this thread from now on.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the foreign media of coverage that harms the Iranian people after authorities claimed he was re-elected in a bitterly disputed vote.


He called on the public to respect the vote on Friday, after his main pro-reform challenger rejected the results and accused authorities of election fraud.

"This is a great victory at a time when the ... propaganda facilities outside Iran and sometimes inside Iran were totally mobilized against our people," Ahmadinejad said, according to an English translation of his victory speech carried on state television.

"The heaviest pressure and psychological warfare was organized against the people of Iran. A large number of foreign media ... organized a full-fledged fight against our people."

Security officials and riot police engaged in violent clashes with demonstrators in Tehran today in what one reporter called an "unprecedented scene" in Iran in recent years.

What started off as a small rally outside a pro-reformist newspaper swelled into a massive crowd of people chanting, "Death to the dictator, death to Ahmadinejad!"


Then, what started with a small amount of police pushing the crowd back turned into huge riot police in armored gear and motor bikes beating all the young students here with batons, knocking them back. The students responded by throwing stones, which the police then threw back. Now the police are coming off all the heart streets and main streets to try and disperse the crowd. But this is an unprecedented scene in Iran today.

(BBC) A crowd of about 3,000 attacked the police, some of whom were on motorbikes, which they set on fire. The sky was thick with black smoke. Police attacked the crowd with sticks and maybe teargas.

I didn't expect to see people turning on the secret police. We were filming when we were surrounded by angry secret policemen. The crowd turned on them and chased them off.

I suspect we are not looking at a revolution but there is serious anger. It all depends on how the government responds - if they use violence, that could inflame the situation.

John Simpson - BBC

On June 14 2009 07:01 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
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EDIT:

Graph of the vote turn in for Ahmadinejad.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/the-results-as-they-came-in.html

On June 14 2009 08:32 Faronel wrote:

wtf... that graph is complete bullshit. R-squared as 0.998, no way is that possible in such an election. Talk about lazy frauding... I mean why take the time to publish the data which is so obviously false, why not actually make the voter turnout at least somewhat plausible.

On June 14 2009 03:06 iamtt1 wrote:


yup.. they basicly paid like 50$ to all the poor/uneducated villagers to go vote for ahmadinejad

On June 14 2009 08:37 Rev0lution wrote:


Retarded post is retarded.

6:14 update: Through Facebook we have received news that Mir Hossein
Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and Gholamhossein Karbaschi are under house arrest.

Martial Law in Tabriz; many arrests.

Even before the earliest of the election results, word had spread that Mir Hossein Mousavi’s private security team had doubled in size. Within an hour of the end of polling, the presidential challenger had announced a “decisive victory” but soon after the first results he was alleging massive electoral fraud.

Earlier in the evening a “pressure group” had raided one of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s campaign offices in the wealthy northern Tehran suburb of Qeytarieh. Information was spreading by word of mouth and through the internet. Iran’s mobile phone text message system had been offline since the beginning of polling on Friday.

On June 14 2009 09:06 benjammin wrote:
Here's a good composite of differing viewpoints on the web so far:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/landslide-or-fraud-the-debate-online-over-irans-election-results/?hp

As far as that graph goes, Nate Silver @ 538 is arguing that it's not very significant in determining voter fraud, and that it's no smoking gun:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/statistical-evidence-does-not-prove.html