Moussavi Now Under Arrest in What Iranians Consider a Coup d'etat (VIDEO)

Iran's Guardian Council which reviews elections, actually received two official complaints; one from Mir-Hossein Moussavi and one from candidate Mohsen Rezaie.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A recount in Iran's disputed election has been announced, though many people there say they have already lost faith in any level of fairness.

The country's Guardian Council will recount those disputed ballot boxes as a response to presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Moussavi's move for the annulment of the vote.

"We are ready to recount those boxes that some presidential candidates claim to have been cheated," said Council spokesman Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei Tuesday.

A Salem-News contact in Tehran says people there are determined to see the real election winner take office.

"See what they did with people's votes? Four years ago we didn't vote, hoping to make them understand we don't want this Ahmadinejad. This time we all participated and vote and again they did it. Its a real coup d'etat here. I have seen revolution and war in my life and now see how dirty a coup d'etat can be."

Iran's election regulations state that the Guardian Council can respond to complaints that are received within three days of the election. The question is whether they will be anything but puppets to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Iran's Press TV quotes Kadkhodaei saying that "despite the expiry of the legal deadline, the body is ready to receive complaints and probe into the issue and build more confidence."

The Guardian Council reportedly assured the presidential candidates that they would thoroughly investigate the matter.

Our contact in Tehran says people everywhere continue to be outraged, and they believe it was the suggestion that their candidate would work with the Western nations and U.S. allies like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, that caused the government to ignore the overwhelming number of votes.

"Now they arrested our candidate... the real president - and are not allowing him contact with people, and The central observation committee announced the Iranian election result are INVALID!"

News agencies everywhere are reporting massive rallies by pro-Moussavi voters. They took to the streets when it all began sporting the color green. Several have already been killed by police for rejecting the election as fraudulent.

The Guardian Council did confirm that they actually received two official complaints over the election. One comes from Moussavi and the other is from Mohsen Rezaie, Press TV reported.

In spite of the Iranian government press releases trying to make the matter appear less severe, Iranian citizens like our contact in Tehran say there is not a hint of fairness or equity.

"Mohtashamipour, the chairman of committee, said observers of all the candidates except observers supporting Ahmadinejad were expelled from the Ministry of Interior. How rude they are."

This Al Jazeera English report shows the outcome of recent elections in Iran has angered supporters of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, with thousands of people taking to the streets to demand a recount:

In this Al Jazeera English report, we see that on the face of it, the election in Iran was between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the incumbent president, and his main rival Mir Hossein Mousavi. But a more significant power struggle is being played out between two other powerful men. Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra explains what is going on behind the scenes:

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Henson June 18, 2009 11:32 am (Pacific time)

The Obama Administration’s response to protests against the Iranian regime’s contempt for even its own thin facade of democracy has been markedly muted and tentative; even the French Government has spoken out more clearly against the fraudulence of the presidential election and the mullahs’ suppression of the Iranian people than has President Obama. One conclusion we can draw from Obama’s failure to offer support for the Iranian people against their theocrat masters is that it eviscerates the entire point of his Cairo speech to the ‘Muslim world’. Of course he did not write the speech, so maybe I'm wrong?

Anonymous June 17, 2009 8:05 pm (Pacific time)

sorry..sorry..sorry, I promise to turn off my computer after this. But HAD to say one last thing.. while the U.S. and israel owned media is focusing on this situation, is it because of? 1. BRIC (look it up, it is huge and showing in dollar.silver markets) 2. HR1207 (audit the fed, and oregon reps have not signed on, but still, it has over 200 co-sponsers) 3. dunno, but people better start waking up.

Anonymous June 17, 2009 7:58 pm (Pacific time)

one last thing..the videos show a few amount of people compared to how many people are in Iran..and is nothing but PR the same as the 1953 issue. deja vu

Anonymous June 17, 2009 7:15 pm (Pacific time)

editor: thanks, and I do believe in your search for truth and having a good heart. Where I was going with this is simple. As I said, We just dont know. Your article makes a person seem that you DO know, and I wanted to disagree. I appreciated your comment tho, and I know you do your best. But let me ask you a question. Think about this for awhile. WHY, is israel and the U.S. putting so much energy, time and money in regards to who is elected in some middle east country? Think about that for awhile. Why is so much time put into Iran, when NO time is put into our OWN elections that are bought and paid for? Dorsett had a great point in regards to this. I do appreciate all that you do, just disagreed in this instance.

Anonymous June 17, 2009 5:54 pm (Pacific time)

Take the plank out of your own eye before trying to remove the speck in anothers eye.
The fact is, we dont knowing what is going on..With israel and the U.S. taking over twitter and many other PR stuff, we simply dont know.
Sorry salem-news, but saying "our contact" does not impress me..I have "my contacts" also, and they say different. Not saying you are wrong, just saying you are not right either. Maybe we should fix our own country, before trying to fix other countries. :-)

Editor: I can tell you that what I put in this story are 100% verbatim quotes. I am not going to name my friend because I don't have to and it doesn't mean diddly squat who this individual is, but they are there and we are not. I am not exactly sure where you are going with this, I can tell you that I believe Iran is an awesome, historic place and most of my stories revolve around telling the real history of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, the way the U.S. and British only played fair until the country's first western-educated Democratically elected President started talking about nationalizing Iran's oli. I have people that write to me who are 100% pro-Shah and I have people who write from the completely opposite point of view. I can tell you that my friend quoted in this article is a liberal person and that the presidential challenger is pretty cool by all accounts. Still, I leave room for the possibility that western sources are blowing this possibly out of proportion, but did you watch the videos? They make it appear very severe

Dorsett Bennett June 17, 2009 4:28 pm (Pacific time)

Murphy is right in that Iran is a Theocracy and that the candidates are picked by the ruling cabal. But is wrong in implying that it is meaningless. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets protesting the election being stolen from their candidate. That did not happen when Bush stole the 2000 election. As of yesterday seven protesters had actually died. Outside of Israel, and Iraq until very recently, Iran is the closest thing to a democracy in the entire region. Young people, the educated elite, the upper class, and many of the middle class wanted change. The middle video is an excellent Al Jazeera clip explaining that all of this conflict may well simply be the public face of the power struggle going on behind the scenes. The 2008 election was the closest American election to have the same enthusiasm as what just took place in Iran. BTW--Moslem Turkey has had secular political elections for about eight decades. See the following hypertext link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/05/AR2007050501180.html

Murphy June 17, 2009 6:59 am (Pacific time)

Iran is a "Theocracy." The religous leaders picked the candidate who would run. What's going on is simply political theatre. Imagine if the people knew that it all was a set-up and any natural leader will never be allowed to be a candidate? Nothing will ever change there until they can have a complete seperation of church and state. That is not very common in countrie where the primary relgion is Islam.

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