Extraordinary scenes: Robert Fisk in Iran

[kpete]

Extraordinary scenes: Robert Fisk in Iran

Posted Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:23am AEST


'The authorities are losing control of what's happening on the streets and that's very dangerous and damaging to them'


* Audio: The Independent's Middle East correspondent is defying Iran's media ban. (ABC News)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/17/2600571.htm

The long-standing Middle East correspondent for The Independent, Robert Fisk, is defying the government crackdown on foreign media reporting in Iran.

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Election result

My suspicion is that might have actually won the election but more like 52 or 53 per cent. It's possible that Mousavi got closer to 38 per cent.

But I think the Islamic republic's regime here wanted to humiliate the opponent and so fiddle the figures, even if Ahmadinejad had won.

The problem with that is they're now going to claim they're going to need a recount. If the recount is to actually give Mousavi the presidency, someone is going to have to pay the price for such an extraordinary fraud of claiming Ahmadinejad won 30, 40, 50 per cent more than he should have done.

You've got to remember as well, on the election night, if the count was correct it meant that they would have had to have counted five million votes in two hours.

more at:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/17/2600571.htm

[bdamomma]

1. thanks for the info kpete.