{"id":8990,"date":"2009-06-19T07:39:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8990"},"modified":"2009-06-19T07:39:18","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:39:18","slug":"james-petras-iranian-elections-the-%e2%80%98stolen-elections%e2%80%99-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8990","title":{"rendered":"James Petras: Iranian Elections: The \u2018Stolen Elections\u2019 Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Prof. James Petras, Global Research, 18 June 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChange for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation… Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.\u201d
\nFinancial Times Editorial, June 15 2009 <\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/strong>
\nThere is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of the pro-US candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass media elite. In the most recent period, the White House and its camp followers cried foul following the free (and monitored) elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an \u2018electoral success\u2019 in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.<\/p>\n

The recently concluded, June 12, 2009 elections in Iran are a classic case: The incumbent nationalist-populist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (MA) received 63.3% of the vote (or 24.5 million votes), while the leading Western-backed liberal opposition candidate Hossein Mousavi (HM) received 34.2% or (3.2 million votes). <\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s presidential election drew a record turnout of more than 80% of the electorate, including an unprecedented overseas vote of 234,812, in which HM won 111,792 to MA\u2019s 78,300. The opposition led by HM did not accept their defeat and organized a series of mass demonstrations that turned violent, resulting in the burning and destruction of automobiles, banks, public building and armed confrontations with the police and other authorities. Almost the entire spectrum of Western opinion makers, including all the major electronic and print media, the major liberal, radical, libertarian and conservative web-sites, echoed the opposition\u2019s claim of rampant election fraud. Neo-conservatives, libertarian conservatives and Trotskyites joined the Zionists in hailing the opposition protestors as the advance guard of a democratic revolution. Democrats and Republicans condemned the incumbent regime, refused to recognize the result of the vote and praised the demonstrators\u2019 efforts to overturn the electoral outcome. The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, the Israeli Foreign Office and the entire leadership of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations called for harsher sanctions against Iran and announced Obama\u2019s proposed dialogue with Iran as \u2018dead in the water\u2019.<\/p>\n

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