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Iran declares win for Ahmadinejad in disputed vote
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 13 - 06 - 2009


Supporters of the main election
challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed with police and
set up barricades of burning tires Saturday as authorities
declared the hard-line president was re-elected in a
landslide. Opponents responded with the most serious unrest
in the capital in a decade and charges that the result was
the work of a «dictatorship.», AP reported.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, closed the
door on any chance he could use his limitless powers to
intervene in the disputes from Friday's election. In a
message on state TV, he urged the nation to unite behind
Ahmadinejad, calling the result a «divine assessment.»
But Ahmadinejad's main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi,
has rejected the result as rigged and urged his supporters
to resist a government of «lies and dictatorship.»
The clashes in central Tehran were the more serious
disturbances in the capital since student-led protests in
1999 and showed the potential for the showdown over the
vote to spill over into further violence and challenges to
the Islamic establishment.
Several hundred demonstrators _ many wearing the trademark
green colors of Mousavi's campaign _ chanted «the
government lied to the people» and gathered near the
Interior Ministry as the final count was announced. It gave
62.6 percent of the vote to Ahmadinejad and 33.75 to
Mousavi, who served as prime minister in the 1980s and has
become the hero of a youth-driven movement seeking greater
liberties and a gentler face for Iran abroad.
The turnout was a record 85 percent of Iran's 46.2 million
eligible voters. Two other candidates received only a
fraction of the vote.


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