TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's supreme leader ordered Monday an investigation into allegations of election fraud, marking a stunning turnaround by the country's most powerful figure and offering hope to opposition forces who have waged street clashes to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
State television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directing a high-level clerical panel, the Guardian Council, to look into charges by pro-reform candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has said he is the rightful winner of Friday's presidential election.
The decision comes after Mousavi wrote a letter appealing to the Guardian Council and met Sunday with Khamenei, who holds almost limitless power over Iranian affairs. Such an election probe by the 12-member council is uncharted territory and it not immediately clear how it would proceed or how long it would take.
Election results must be authorized by the council, composed of clerics closely allied with the unelected supreme leader. All three of Ahmadinejad's challengers in the election — Mousavi and two others — have made public allegations of fraud after results showed the president winning by a 2-to-1 margin.
How do you investigate yourself? I thought he said the election results were divine will.
Neocon AIPAC using Iran election to push for WAR.
Our propaganda media is dumbstruck.
Federal Reserve and 911;
Liars and Truthers.
The neoCons in Iran fooled some U.S. progressives but some of them are easily fooled these daze.
Puppet opposition groups in Iran created under W Bush are raising hell over this election.
The vile Obama administration continues with the illegal destabilization program set up by W Bush.
The compliant corporate media in the US gins up the story, spinning it as a second American revolution.
Raw story joins in with the big lie, the big hype job, helping to pave the way for pending American/Israeli war on Iran. Well at least you didn't write another hit piece on Cindy Sheehan. I suppose you think we should be thankful for that.
Like many here, I wonder just how and when raw story lost its integrity and balls.
The clear evidence is that you guys are not what you once were.
You are now just another unreliable pretend leftist site, offering up pro war propaganda disguised as objective reporting.
Watch footage of the rallies. 1 MM people estimated!
BBC Persia live news
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/tv/2009/01/000000_ptv_live_s.shtml
Follow the twitterers listed here for translations of the news
http://www.simoncolumbus.com/2009/06/15/english-language-twitterers-in-iran/
(especially Raymond Jahan, Bahram81)
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23iranelection
Fishy election results
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/iran-does-have-some-fishy-numbers.html
Follow these people
He's in charge right? If he doesn't already know what happened, that's scary. If he knows, the probe is a sham. Take your pick.
Will Iranian elections be over turned by the guardian council or just more charades?
http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=5528
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Hey Neocon Three Stooges. Bush couldn't run a lemonade stand because he'd torture the lemons trying to get more juice from the juiceless seeds and rind, let operate covertly in this way in Iran. This is internal moron, they have a young poplace and they are tired of the bullshit period. If anything, Obama's election caused it to swell. Just stating the facts jack.
CurlyMoe&Obama, you are an idiot, I have no idea where you get your ideas. The US doesn't have the power or influence to bring out the Iranian people in such huge numbers.
Christian: well the posters on this site are all insane. what do you expect.
yeah bush was a terrible president, and obama's not perfect, but all you do is pick a random incident somewhere around the world and somehow attribute it to their policies.
maybe, just maybe, the iranian government is corrupt and it has nothing to do with bush or obama? honestly, it's a pretty simple idea.
There are REAL, indiginous forces for reform in Iran.
Iranians are not ignorant Third World people. although the faction that supports Ahmadjinebad" (?) tends fit that description -- volkisch Red Staters, less educated, socially conservative -- etc. .
The pro-Westerners are the good guys in Iran,y -- the reformers, the "European", cosmopolitan Iranians, as opposed to the more rural, Islamic, fundamentalist, volkisch, less educated, more rural, "Red State" factions in Iran.
The Ayatollah has accepted the petition to contest the election.
There's hope.
The only vote that matters has yet to be cast.
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