CAIRO – Iran's most powerful security force threatened Monday to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election, warning demonstrators to prepare for a "revolutionary confrontation" if they take to the streets again. It was the sternest warning yet from the elite Revolutionary Guard.
An Iranian woman who lives in Tehran said there was a heavy police and security presence in the location where an opposition march was slated to take place Monday. She asked not to be identified because she was worried about government reprisals.
"There is a massive, massive, massive police presence," she told the Associated Press in Cairo by telephone. "Their presence was really intimidating."
The country's highest electoral authority, the Guardian Council, acknowledged voting irregularities in 50 electoral districts in the June 12 vote, the most serious official admission so far of problems in the election that the opposition has labeled a fraud. But the council insisted the problems do not affect the outcome of the vote. The electoral council said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won by a landslide.
The Revolutionary Guard, in a statement posted on its Web site, warned protesters to "be prepared for a resolution and revolutionary confrontation with the Guards, Basij and other security forces and disciplinary forces" if they continue their near-daily rallies.
Sarkozy is just vainly trying to drum up local support as he falters in the French popularity polls. He is as bad as Tony Blair was, beating on the drums of liberty while bad mouthing anything he thinks will rally support behind him. He is a parasitic windbag, France`s version of a Glen Beck type. Like Joe the Plumber, Sarkizy needs to be ignored, forgotten, lost in the annals of history.
Howie is right; Sarkozy is like a little attention-starved miniature French poodle, yapping with all his might to get attention and seem 'important'. Even if that yapping is counter-productive to the aspirations of the reform movement, and simply gives the authoritarian theocrats a reason to further vilify and suppress the movement.
Hey whaddaya know? That's the very same thing that happened here in Ohio! How do I know-well, I was a skeptic. But I was hired to conduct an investigation and the bottom line was there were more votes on the machines than voters signed into the poll books and the Board of Elections couldn't explain it under oath-nor did they dispute the validity of my investigation results. We're all Iranians now-or is it we're all Americans?
ACORN's in Iran too?
[...] as police fired cannisters into the protesters to break up the mobs running around. Iran’s admitted to there being more votes than voters in this election, but 3 million extra? Those protesters have [...]
By this statement the Iranian oppressors have admitted the inconsequence of their own election figures. We are in the midst of the worst suppression by
clergymen in modern history, and the more it is suppressed the worse the clergy appears to the entire world. One can say with impressive evidence now that the
poorest provision for justice in governments are by the clergy and the legal professions. I wonder how many in these professions realize this truism! They
really have a worldwide responsibility to address their rampant failures NOW.
Of course the evidence of fallability in our own legal profession was exposed
by the late unlamented Bush administration. The profession of politics of course
is another victim of its own greed for power and influence. I recall Mark Twain's
comment that our legistrators are the largest criminal organization in our own
country.
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_56104.shtml
R. Krueger says, "ACORN's in Iran too?"
You jackass.
I call you a jackass because you are purposely repeating false information. In short, you are a liar.
There was no VOTE fraud by anyone Acorn helped or encourage to register to vote. As always, jokers make registrations out as Fred Flintstone or whatever. If you are gathering registrations, that paperwork, MUST be turned in... you can't filter it... it isn't your place to do so.
No one AND YOU KNOW THIS, with a fake name of Minnie Mouse or Mickey Mouse ACTUALLY GETS TO VOTE AS SUCH!!!
Again. You sir are a jackass and a liar.
Wall Street Journal: More ACORN vote fraud comes to light
Pajamas Media: The complete guide to ACORN voter fraud
Of course a left Democrat person like Allen would call me a "jackass" when the facts defy his or hers or whatever gender it is's moonbat view of the world. ACORN has engaged in vote fraud, Allen. Are you saying the Wall Street Journal is lying, Allen?
They need to stop it, just like this fascistic Iranian regime needs to quit.
"Bush Jr. also did remarkably well with phantom populations. The number of his votes in Perry and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio, exceeded the number of registered voters, creating turnout rates as high as 124 percent. In Miami County nearly 19,000 additional votes eerily appeared in Bush’s column after all precincts had reported. In a small conservative suburban precinct of Columbus, where only 638 people were registered, the touchscreen machines tallied 4,258 votes for Bush.
In almost half of New Mexico’s counties, more votes were reported than were recorded as being cast, and the tallies were consistently in Bush’s favor. These ghostly results were dismissed by New Mexico’s Republican Secretary of State as an 'administrative lapse.'"
http://www.michaelparenti.org/stolenelections.html
Only three million votes? Is that all? Who's advising the Iranian mullahs on their vote-counting technology, Kenneth Blackwell? Diebold Corporation? Sounds like one of them, if not both, or Karl Rove, maybe?
Arch-conservative religious nuts using fraudulent vote-counting procedures to stay in office when, in reality, the voters wanted them thrown out. They then say the people and God have spoken (to them only, apparently). Ohio, Florida, meet Iran.
Sounds familiar ... Bush/Gore 2000 Part Deux ... Bush/Kerry 2004 Part Deux ...
When did Uncle KKKarl and the repuglicunt's start working for Iran?
Freddy Krueger - Allen's right. Except he forgot the part where he says you are a terrorist.
Wall Street Journal: R. Krueger found to be partisan hack
See how easy that is?
And after reading that WSJ article, you DO realize that no one was convicted of "vote fraud", right? The article doesn't talk about ONE SINGLE ILLEGAL VOTE, just that "invalid registration cards" were submitted (and from other investigations I've looked into, many of those are actually MARKED for the officials because the LAW REQUIRES that ACORN and others turn in ALL CARDS, even the ones they KNOW are fraudulent. ACORN doesn't have the authority to toss cards, only the Registrar does.
And, again, "registration forms" are NOT VOTES.
"ACORN has engaged in vote fraud, Allen. Are you saying the Wall Street Journal is lying, Allen?"
No, jackass.. and fucktard.. YOU are lying (but only because you're too simple to understand the issue.
Bush won. All the liberal crying
in the world isn't going to change
that fact. He won fairly
in 2000 and 2004.
Acorn's voter fraud
has been identified.
Convictions or not
they're full of rot.
Iran's mullah's need
to heed the people's call
and allow democracy
to bloom for all.
"CAIRO – Iran's most powerful security force threatened Monday to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election, warning demonstrators to prepare for a "revolutionary confrontation" if they take to the streets again. It was the sternest warning yet from the elite Revolutionary Guard." - Lol, News from Cairo, Egypt, the country that's a U.S. ally and a country ruled by a dictator who is president for life. LOL!
Since when have western governments been more concerned about some countries citizens than their resources? Never ever.
Why don't we hear anything about the politics of Mousiavi? He's an uber-conservative religious fanatic, thats why, and furthermore, this story is all about destabilizing Iran, not giving a shit about it's people.
Savantster:
Freddy Krueger doesn't let facts get in the way of his fantastical delusions ... he must have 'missed' this one ... LOL. Yes, Freddy is quite the dumbass ...
Living in Glass Houses: The GOP's Own Man is Convicted of Voter Registration Fraud
June 18, 2009, 3:16PM
Cross-posted at Project Vote's Voting Matters Blog
By Michael McDunnah
The McCain-Palin campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) spent the better part of the fall screaming about alleged "voter registration fraud," and to this day the GOP and the right-wing media machine continue to raise the specter of voter registration shenanigans that are somehow undermining the integrity of American elections. Now, after months of reckless invective and fruitless investigations, incontrovertible facts have been admitted in court, and someone has finally been convicted of voter registration fraud.
Fraud did take place in the 2008 election--conducted for, and paid for by, the Republican Party.
The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday evening that Mark Anthony Jacoby, owner of a for-profit group called Young Political Majors (YPM), pled guilty to voter registration fraud in Los Angeles. Brad Freidman of the BradBlog has been keeping tabs on Jacoby for months, and wrote yesterday:
"Jacoby and Young Political Majors were hired by the California Republican Party to head up their voter registration efforts in the state. Jacoby had been arrested for Voter Registration Fraud last October, smack dab during the media's orgasmic heights of last year's phony GOP ACORN "Voter Fraud" hoax, even as Fox "News" (and the other news outlets who similarly fell for the scam) were going wall-to-wall with their unsupported insinuations about voter fraud by ACORN, Democrats and Obama."
Jacoby's YPM firm has been the go-to operation for GOP registration and petition drives in several states. In 2008 the California Republican Party hired YPM to register tens of thousands of voters, paying $7-12 for every Californian they registered as a member of the GOP, according to the Los Angeles Times last fall. "Jacoby's arrest ...came after dozens of voters said they were duped into registering as Republicans by people employed by YPM. The voters said YPM workers tricked them by saying they were signing a petition to toughen penalties against child molesters."
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/project_vote/2009/06/living-in-glass-houses-the-gop.php?ref=reccafe
babydoll:
Please stick to your day job. And I sincerely hope that day job is not being a poet.
[...] Guardian Council has admitted over 100% of voters voted in 50 electoral districts, but has ruled out nullification. Mr. Mousavi called for a rally on [...]
the revolution: someone else, somewhere else. never here... not for health care or anything else.
HortenHordsAHookah
Hoards. To hoard. NOT to "hord."
Stick to your day job as well and learn to spell. Hey, that rhymes. It's about as bad as Babydoll's doggerel, but without HHAH's grammatical sloppiness.