Iranian reformer says presidential election was rigged

[democratic]

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13876153

Saturday, 18 June , 2005, 22:55

Tehran: The shock presidential election showing by Tehran's right-wing Mayor Mahmood Ahmadinejad was the result of an elaborate plot to rig the polls, one of the beaten reformist contenders claimed Saturday.

"There has been bizarre interference. Money has changed hands," the centrist-reformist cleric and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karoubi told reporters in an unprecedented allegation.

"The Guardians Council would have appointed Ahmadinejad without any election," Karoubi fumed, saying, "Some people have been denied their rights".

Karoubi also claimed he had "tapes" that implicated Revolutionary Guard commanders, and said some members of the hardline Basij militia had been allowed to vote more than once.

[TwentyFive]

1. Who was his campaign strategist? Ahmed Rove?

The right wingers can't win legitimately, so they have to rig elections. No surprises here.

[vogonjiltz]

2. Doesn't really matter,

given the problems that the outgoing proesident had.

[Double T]

3. Is The Entire World Using Diebold Voting Equipment.....

Model# NEOCON-WIN-1

[stillcool]

4. Maybe one of these countries....

has a free press? So, we can get some more leaked memos...9/11...let the whole damn thing come crashing down.

[Rainscents]

5. What is this mean to Bush and the company? Is Bush in favorite of

this right wing regime?

[Jim Sagle]

6. Welcome to the club, Mahmood.

[ngGale]

7. Why does this not surprise me?

n/t

[Kool Kitty]

8. "There has been bizarre interference. Money has changed

hands." Sounds like Ohio.