Iran “recount” gives Ahmadinejad win!

Published on June 29th, 2009

Al Jazeera – Iran recount gives Ahmadinejad win — It’s official!

Iran’s Guardian Council has confirmed the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country’s president, following a partial recount of votes from the disputed presidential election of June 12.

State television said that Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the council’s secretary, had presented Sadegh Mahsouli, the minister of the interior, with a letter saying it had approved the election after a recount of 10 per cent of the ballots.

“The secretary of the Guardian Council in a letter to the interior minister announced the final decision of the Council … and declares the approval of the accuracy of the results of … the presidential election,” IRIB, the Iranian broadcaster, said.

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# 1 GF said, on June 29th, 2009 at 10:30 am

Thank awkbar that’s settled. Now Israel can bomb the hell out of ‘em.

# 2 Benjamin said, on June 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am

If you think that counting 10 percent of the ballots that were preselected in case of a recount will settle things, I got a bridge I am willing to sell you.

# 3 Proud Alien said, on June 29th, 2009 at 11:00 am

Well, now imagine, that the Iranians didn’t like the outcome of the US elections in 2000 and 2004. Isn’t it funny how the Yanks expose themselves as sore losers every time something doesn’t go turn out to their liking? Oh, Venezuela is terrible, and Iran is such a monster. Hello?? At least they 1) have elections; 2) offer equal right to men and women; 3) allow free travel to and from their countries. Now, let’s look at our friends in the region, like the Saudis, or the Kuwaitis, or the Egyptians. Do you see the difference?

Truly, this country’s hypocrisy has no boundaries. Is it any wonder that the US has no respect in the world? And ain’t confuse it with the appetite for the dollars: it’s business, stupid!

# 4 chuck said, on June 29th, 2009 at 11:11 am

Well that seems fair. Only re-counting 10% of the ballots is all that is necessary.

After all, we only needed to re-count the votes in a few specific counties in Florida.

# 5 gooddebate said, on June 29th, 2009 at 11:30 am

He yawns, rolls his eyes and says in a seemingly defeated way, “All right, I guess I’ll play.”

There’s only one reason why you’d say things like this, you’re a bully. Like the bully in the lunchroom, “Hey dork, get me a milk!”

Posting on a site like this is the perfect place to act like a bully, too. But here’s the problem, you’re trying to make everyone feel bullied but there’s no requisite threat of harm. So, it may seem like a good way to move people to your way of thinking but it doesn’t have the effect that you think it does. The only possible threat, I guess, could be that you’re implying that the whole world thinks like you.

Well, you’ll be glad to know that you can gloat pretty soon when the US finishes self destructing. So, you can choose to live with your little bully attitude if that’s the kind of life you want to live. Unfortunately, your view of what’s good and what’s evil in this world has already been damaged.

# 6 Jägermeister said, on June 29th, 2009 at 11:57 am

This is why there should be a 100% separation of church and state.

# 7 Jägermeister said, on June 29th, 2009 at 11:58 am

#6 … Make that religion and state…

# 8 amodedoma said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pm

Good for them, now those people will either explode in revolution or bow down.

# 9 Thinker said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Well I for one am just shocked, shocked I say!

# 10 pedro said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:25 pm

#2 Well, that’s exactly how it happened in venezuela. Coincidence? I think not!

#3 How misinformed pwople could be.

1) if by elections you mean something completely manipulated by the government, from goverment campaign fund to full vote cohersion & fraud then yes, there vote.
2) Yes man & women have equal rights in venezuela, just as much as in the US. Now if you say Iran has that well, you have absolutely no idea about anything.
3) If by allowing free travel by their citizens you mean only those that can have a credit card with enough balance to be allowed the the ammounts of dollars (2000 right now) for travel and that are given the authorization by the governemtn to get that currency assingment then yes, people can travel from venezuela to other countries. Unfortunately, only about 100.000 people fit the credit card profile and the government is restrciting who they give currency to every year.

Cuba also allows tourist come to & fro without restrictions, you know.

My last word about you is this: moron!

# 11 Thinker said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:40 pm

As Gomer Pyle would say, … “Well surprise, surprise, surprise!”

Nice to see you back Pedro.

# 12 Kai said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pm

The Religious leaders using religious law and the military are in and will be in full control.
This is merely a “steam venting”. It is also an opportunity to grab some activists and remove them from the agitation they create.

Soon all will be as it well and we will continue to be the “great satan” as we have been since the ’70’s.

By the way you can thank president Jimmy Carter for this situation. Perhaps you will thank him while he is pounding nails at some Habitat for Humanity site.

# 13 Proud Alien said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

# 10: Nice to meet you, Moron. A few questions for you: have you been to any of these countries? What sources do you get the information from? Also, you didn’t seem to notice a comparison question. Why so shy?

# 14 jim said, on June 29th, 2009 at 12:52 pm

ThIs is a victory for the CIA and Mossad. They have successfully delegitimized the Iranian government with this so called ” Green revolution”. Now, once again they will have a gullible US public behind them when the bombs start dropping on Iran. I’m confident you will all be there wearing your green and thinking to yourself how great it is that America is there to save these poor repressed people. We’ll good luck with that. Because, Russia and China will never allow that to happen. Your foolish neo con’s are leading the whole world down a very dark road. Just remember, Russia and China are fully capable of taking on the US and this time around, it ain’t going to be a sitting on your ass in front of the TV type of war.

# 15 thegodfaza said, on June 29th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

So by “partial”, they mean that they recounted all Ahmadinejad’s votes only.

# 16 Proud Alien said, on June 29th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

For some forgetfuls here: remember Orange “revolution” in Ukraine? Well, the government that was formed went down once, the president who got elected has an approval rating of 2% and the country wants the “bad” guys back. Rose “revolution in Georgia: the ant-government riots are a routine thing there, the coalition split and the US-supported guy is widely hated.

But, hey, the gullible Pedros and Morons are eager to bend over and offer their behinds for more of their tax dollars to cause more disturbances just for the heck of it.

# 17 RTaylor said, on June 29th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

I understand the Iranian President has few powers, the clergy is in real control of the country. If you took a city, like San Francisco, and assumed it represented a true cultural cross section of a Nation, you error. We observed the middle class in cities. Who knows how the rural vote went? Perhaps it’s enough to show the world Iranians aren’t all lockstep sheep. I’m sure it rattled the hell out of the clerics. As soon as Israeli intelligence confirms a viable nuclear weapon is close the, IDF will attack with a vengeance. If they can’t do it with conventional weapons, they’ll go nuclear. They’ll not live with a hostile country close enough to launch a first strike. Israel even has missile subs that can launch a last strike.

# 18 gooddebate said, on June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm

#13

Compare Iran with Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Egypt,… our friends? Are you implying moral equivalence? What you’re really implying is that a person (or country) makes friends with like persons (or countries). And that if you can show that one friend (or country) is unworthy then everything they say or do can be thrown out as unworthy. Is it really honest to try to point this out by comparing a country that is a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10 with countries that are 2’s?

Here’s what you don’t get; in this country there is a running battle with the government. Listen for peoples general opinion of congress. There’s a continual fight to prevent the government from taking things that aren’t it’s business. There may yet be revivals where the government is pushed back but it will eventually win. So when you come here you’re not talking to the government or even friends of the government; you’re talking to people. So don’t show your ignorance trying to bully people when you really should be fighting the government.

# 19 Tex said, on June 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Now let’s see how many Twits keep Twitting until death do they part from their text machines which of course are going to save the world from oppression from filling the world with Twits.

# 20 ethanol said, on June 29th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

Proud Alien (#13),

Since you haven’t been here much, I’ll enlighten you about Pedro. Pedro lives in Venezuela so I think he has an idea about this topic…

# 21 Sam said, on June 29th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

What?!? The same people who defrauded the election in the first place have claimed there was no fraud? I don’t believe it!

# 22 Nimby said, on June 29th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

I lost track. So A’jad now has 125% of the votes? Is that nationwide or just where they’ve been recounted?

It doesn’t matter. The Ayatollah still holds the reins.

# 23 pedro said, on June 29th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

#13 All of them save for Iran, but I’ve been to the middle east. My source are my own experiences, besides from firends and several news sources. Not shy at all, only that I know a misinformed moron when I see it.

#14 Another Moron.

#16 The only gullible person I see here is you trying to makes us beleive your crap.

# 24 jim said, on June 30th, 2009 at 3:22 am

#23
Exactly the type of comment you get from someone who has nothing to add to the debate.
Let me guess, your a Bill O’reilly fan boy.

# 25 jim said, on June 30th, 2009 at 3:32 am

#23
Let me make another guess, you don’t support Hugo Chavez.

# 26 amodedoma said, on June 30th, 2009 at 4:19 am

Politicians are all the same crap. It doesn’t really matter who wins. What does matter, is that the Iranian people can take control just like they did when they took the power from that US stooge ‘the Shah’ and gave it to the Ayatollahs. I understand some Unitedstatesicans are little resentful after the hostage crisis and the failed rescue(I was right there aboard the USS Okinawa at the time). A humiliating defeat to be sure. Still not enough to learn not to mess around in somebody elses politics, though – and that’s a shame.

# 27 Lou said, on June 30th, 2009 at 7:37 am

Who cares ! Not I.

# 28 ramuno said, on June 30th, 2009 at 8:23 am

The results were announced by his brother,
Jeb Ahmadinejad.

# 29 The Monster's Lawyer said, on June 30th, 2009 at 8:32 am

#28 Ramuno Cheese — Hahahahahah! You win.

# 30 orangetiki said, on June 30th, 2009 at 10:30 am

So when you ask the people who win did you cheat and they say no, do you believe them?

# 31 pedro said, on June 30th, 2009 at 11:59 am

#25 Lemmy guess, you’re a lefty loon who supports radical right wing theocracies.

# 32 jim said, on July 1st, 2009 at 1:47 am

#31
I thought as much . Your a bitter man because hugo prevented the scum bags you supported from raping your country. I can see why you support western neo-con tyranny in Iran.

# 33 Rick Cain said, on July 5th, 2009 at 12:37 am

I always wondered where Saddam’s vote counting team went…

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