Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Guardian Council says NO to Iran Election redo



OK, so, it’s not just Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei who’s a hard-liner. Or a denier of reality. The Council of Guardians not only said no to a do-over, it a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/world/middleeast/24iran.html"denied the need for one/a:br /blockquoteOn Press TV, the English-language state television satellite broadcaster, Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, declared: “If a major breach occurs in an election, the Guardian Council may annul the votes that come out of a particular affected ballot box, polling station, district, or city.”br /br /“Fortunately, in the recent presidential election we found no witness of major fraud or breach in the election,” he said.br /br /“Therefore, there is no possibility of an annulment taking place.” /blockquotebr /Kadkhodaei then brushed off specific accusations, while Khamenei himself said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s margin of victory was so big as to preclude fraud.div class="blogger-post-footer"There is no god and I am his prophet.img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7532871-6328514686784104176?l=socraticgadfly.blogspot.com'//div

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