The Iran Presidential election was fixed. Intelligence Ministry officials warned about it

[Aloha Spirit]

before Friday, suspecting a fatwah was issued to fix the election.
On Friday there were many reports of tampered ballot boxes, ballot boxes with impossibly high numbers for the incumbent, and ballot boxes that were being burned.
Cell phone, internet and other communication media were limited before during and even now, four days after the election.
Imagine if Obama tried to run his campaign with a filtered internet and filtered phones.
Concrete barriers were erected in Tehran even before protests started.
Journalists have been kicked out.
All across the country, students are being attacked and killed by the militia and the police forces.
Reports of arabic speaking forces started yesterday.
The violence seems to be worse in the smaller cities where people are less anonymous and where there is less access to the internet.
Human rights activists, opposition supporters, and random young people are being arrested en masse, especially if they go to hospitals.
Militia are being given preference in hospitals, and so what's the point in going if you won't get treatment but will probably get thrown in prison.
Police and militia have been given authority to shoot anyone who demonstrates.
Yesterday, shots were fired on a peaceful crowd and at least 7 people died, but those are not the only murders...just the ones that our media has reported on.
Yet, the people of Iran continue to show defiance.
In the city of Tehran, population about 7.8 million, about 65% are of voting age. That's about 5 million people.
Moussavi officially received 46% of the votes in Tehran province.
That's about 2.3 million votes.
Estimates of the number or people participating in Tehran's 5 mile long protest yesterday are between 1 and 2 million people.

If anyone wants to try to claim Friday's election was valid, then please tell me why this massive organized campaign to quash the opposition's support was executed before, during and after the election. Iranians I don't think expected the vote to be fair, but if anything delegitimates Ahmadinejad's presidency, it's his misuse of the Intelligence Ministry and other government forces to crush the rights of the opposition.

[Thrill]

1. Well its not like anything is going to change. Ahmadinejad is the President

Should of had international observers on the ground

[bdamomma]

2. the election was fixed, period.

and now journalists are being told to stay in their offices, cowardly acts of the government, again NO DISSENT ALLOWED. I feel for those protestors.

[Lasher]

3. Here's the militia caught in the act of fixing the election

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4. for those who don't know, the election tampering occurred before the election

as well as during.
Candidates are decided by the guardian council.
The state controls access to election coverage.
The President has used the Iranian Intelligence ministry to identify and reign in the opposition.
No one expected the vote to be fair, and it was not.
Please read this for more information on how the vote was fraudulent.
http://tehranbureau.com/2009/06/07/fatwa-issued-for-changing-the-vote-in-favor-of-ahmadinejad/

“After the meeting the elections supervisors, who had become happy and energetic for having obtained the religious fatwa to use any trick for changing the votes, began immediately to develop plans for it.”

[Jello Biafra]

5. We couldn't have fixed elections in our country....

wait a minute...we already have.

[Aloha Spirit]

6. Hi

Could you elaborate