Poll: Do you think the Iranian election was a fraud?
Sunday, June 14, 2009 12:29Posted in category Polls
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John Burris says:
June 14th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
The iranian election was not a fraud, however, the ballots were not read. You can see this by visiting the below websites which remind vivid memories of the run up to the Iranian Revolution which brought Ahamdinejad’s compatriots into power, seems that the people have had enough, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2V-GyRYvc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUlTrcPEvUA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MkATcn04M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5By0Q7_-w0M and finally http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/06/ahmadinejads_nu/. Last night in London after appearing on Keith Olbermann’s show, I got an email from a well-connected Iranian who knows many of the power figures in the Tehran political order asking to meet me. I told him that the only place possible was Paddington on the way to Heathrow — and there we met.
He conveyed to me things that were mostly obvious — Iran is now a tinderbox. The right is tenaciously consolidating its control over the state and refuses to yield. There is a split among the mullahs and significant dismay with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. A gaping hole has been ripped open in Iranian society, exposing the contradictions of the regime and everyone now sees that the democracy that they believed that they had in Iranian form is a “charade.”
But the scariest point he made to me that I had not heard anywhere else is that this “coup by the right wing” has created pressures that cannot be solved or patted down by the normal institutional arrangements Iran has constructed. The Guardian Council and other power nodes of government can’t deal with the current crisis and can’t deal with the fact that a civil war has now broken out among Iran’s revolutionaries.
My contact predicted serious violence at the highest levels. He said that Ahmadinejad is now genuinely scared of Iranian society and of Mousavi and Rafsanjani. The level of tension between them has gone beyond civil limits — and my contact said that Ahmadinejad will try to have them imprisoned and killed.
Likewise, he said, Rafsanjani, Khatami, and Mousavi know this — and thus are using all of the instruments at their control within Iran’s government apparatus to fight back — but given Khamenei’s embrace of Ahmadinejad’s actions in the election and victory, there is no recourse but to try and remove Khamenei. Some suggest that Rafsanjani will count votes to see if there is a way to formally dislodge Khamenei — but this source I met said that all of these political giants have resources at their disposal to “do away with” those that get in the way.
He predicted that the so-called reformist camp — who are not exactly humanists in the Western liberal sense — may try and animate efforts to decapitate the regime and “do away with” Ahmadinejad and even the Supreme Leader himself.
I am not convinced that this source “knows” these things will definitely happen but am convinced of his credentials and impressed with the seriousness of the discussion we had and his own concern that there may be political killing sprees ahead.
This is not a vision he advocates — but one he fears.
– Steve Clemons
V says:
June 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Supplemental question: “Do you think that the US elections have been (both 2004 and 2008)? My answer: YES
Bob M says:
June 15th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Better question: Why all this crap about Iranian elections (and NWO)? What ever happened to the market analysis I originally came to this site for??
Yeah, elections may have an impact on the market. Why not write about THAT instead of some cheezy, pointless “vote” which would definately be slanted due to the viewers this site would naturally attract. Really, are there many Persians, Azeris, or Kurds on here?
wx says:
June 15th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Right on Bob M
What the f#%& is the purpose of this vote here?
This site’s “vote” makes the Iranian election look like the most impartial expression of democracy the world has ever witnessed
How do we know that THIS isn’t rigged?
chartingstocks1 says:
June 15th, 2009 at 8:36 pm
lol…yea right on Bob..YOU BOTH HAVE THE SAME IP ADDRESS!!!
John Burris says:
June 15th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Excellent 10-4 to the moderator, market analysis is an extention of world and poilitical analysis which supplement sway fundamentals and technicals wich make the market. The Iranian elections regardless of twitter and intrpretation by western media is the single most important news currently on the radar of all western governments. Why, start from the price of oil and work your way backwards. Readers on this site are smart and estude enough but just for a few bobs that may need a nudge in the right direction.
John Burris says:
June 16th, 2009 at 4:11 am
If the votes were authentic and true and the will of majority behind them – why fight stand up against them, If the elections were not fixed and not a fraud would they need to do the below to protect the vote, the votes would have clearly spoken for them selves:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html. Look at the 3 last photos depicting the bodies of 3 of 7 people killed just in one “peaceful” rally yesterday. These are human being martyrs standing up to achieve and protect their right and their families right’s to be free.
BASSAM says:
June 17th, 2009 at 9:29 am
***** what is the truth?*****
The thing that the iranian people and their government , needs now
IS **** UNITY****
LOOK ACROSS YOUR BORDER SORRY BORDERS EAST WEST NORTH
WITOUT UNITY THERE WILL BE ONLY LOSERS WHO EVER
IS THE LEADER