15 June, 2009

Post Update: Mousavi seeks to overturn Iran election result | Reuters

( Referenced article: Mousavi seeks to overturn Iran election result | Reuters )

Article quotes:

"Police have detained over 100 reformers, including a brother of former President Mohammad Khatami, a leading reformer said. A police official denied Khatami's brother had been arrested."

"Speaking at a news conference Ahmadinejad described the election as "clean and healthy" and dismissed complaints by defeated candidates as sour grapes."

""Some people want democracy only for their own sake. Some want elections, freedom, a sound election. They recognize it only as long as the result favors them," Ahmadinejad declared."

"A spokesman for Mousavi said his newspaper, Kalameh-ye Sabz, and its website had been shut down. Mobile telephone text services have also been interrupted in Tehran for several days, and the British Broadcasting Corporation said Iran was using "heavy electronic jamming" to interrupt its widely watched BBC Persian television service."

"U.S. Vice President Joe Biden cast doubt on the election result but said Washington was reserving its position for now. "It sure looks like the way they're suppressing speech, the way they're suppressing crowds, the way in which people are being treated, that there's some real doubt," he told NBC's "Meet the Press" when asked if Ahmadinejad had won the vote.""

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Some people want democracy only for their own sake. Some want elections, freedom, a sound election. They recognize it only as long as the result favors them," Ahmadinejad declared."
Real ironic.