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標題:Ahmadi-Nejad wins landslide in Iran
By Najmeh Bozorgmehr and Anna Fifield in Tehran
Published: June 13 2009 10:47 | Last updated: June 13 2009 13:16
The government of Iran on Saturday announced that incumbent Mahmoud
Ahmadi-Nejad had won a landslide victory in the presidential election, amid
claims from opposition leaders that the results in the historic contest had
been “staged”.
Opposition supporters were shocked at the results and Mir-Hosssein Moussavi,
the moderate former prime minister who was challenging Mr Ahmadi-Nejad, vowed
to fight what he saw as a unacceptable result.
But Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader, made it clear that the
contest was over.
“More than 80 per cent turnout and more than 20m votes for the
president-elect is a real cause for celebration,” the supreme leader said in
a statement on Saturday afternoon, calling the election “a startling and
unique event”.
Mr Khamenei called on other candidates to help the president and asked the
supporters of both sides to avoid “provocative words and deeds”.
He advised all people, especially the youth, to be aware of the “enemy’s
plots”.
With about 82 per cent of the votes counted, the interior ministry said that
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad had won 64.7 per cent of the vote, easily passing the 50 per
cent threshold needed to win outright in the first round.
Mr Moussavi had taken only 32.2 per cent of the vote, the ministry said,
while the two marginal candidates, reformist Mehdi Karroubi and
fundamentalist Mohsen Rezaei, won 0.8 per cent and 2.07 per cent respectively.
The interior ministry released the results with record speed, without giving
details of which constituencies had been counted.
Turnout was a record 85 per cent, according to the Guardian Council,
exceeding the previous high of 79 per cent recorded when Mohammad Khatami, a
reformist, won the election in 1997.
The results appear to be at odds with the huge groundswell of support that
formed around Mr Moussavi in the final week of the campaign, and with the
history of high turnout favouring reformists over conservatives.
“I warn that I will not succumb to this staged arrangement,” Mr Moussavi
said in a statement on Saturday. “We witnessed the performance of dishonest
officials, resulting in nothing except shaking the foundations of the holy
Islamic republic of Iran and giving sovereignty to lies and dictatorship.”
Iranians knew vote rigging had taken place on a massive scale, Mr Moussavi
said. “People who formed long queues and know who they have voted for, are
watching in absolute astonishment the magical claims of officials and the
statements on TV and radio,” he said.
Other reformists also lashed out. “It’s absolutely clear that the results
have been engineered,” said one reformist close to Mr Karroubi. “From now
on, those who were motivated to participate in elections and make changes won
’t do so anymore.”
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s office did not make any comment on Saturday about the
allegations of electoral fraud. But Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi, the head of Mr
Ahmadi-Nejad’s election headquarters, suggested that reformists could not
accept the fact that most Iranian people did not want Mr Moussavi as their
president.
“Everyone should obey people’s votes and those who thought they should rely
on people to reach their personal plans and interests are wrong,” Mr
Samareh-Hashemi said on Saturday, according to Fars news agency.
“Those who do not abide by people’s votes are in fact showing that what
matters to them is their own power,” he said.
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s supporters are planning are huge celebration in Azadi
Square in western Tehran on Sunday evening.
With the race between Mr Ahmadi-Nejad and Mr Moussavi tight and both men
enjoying significant amounts of support – the president among the poor and
the rural community, his challenger among the urban middle class – most
analysts expected a run-off next Friday to decide the winner.
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad still enjoys significant support in rural areas and among
religious radicals, largely thanks to his generous handouts and revolutionary
zeal. However, he has alienated large segments of society, including the
middle class, youth and the business community.
Several hundred protesters gathered in front of the interior ministry and at
Mr Moussavi and Mr Karroubi’s campaign headquarters on Friday night, and
again at Mr Moussavi’s office on Saturday morning, but all were dispersed by
police.
Security was tightened around these areas on Saturday morning, with road
blocks set up on the thoroughfares around the interior ministry.
The rest of the city was calm, with only the occasional Ahmadi-Nejad
supporter flying an Iranian flag from his motorbike.
“Everyone is shocked,” said a reformist leader from the north-eastern city
of Mashhad, but he added that there were no security problems.
Authorities in one town near Mashhad said Mr Moussavi won in that district
but when the results were announced by the provincial governor, Mr
Ahmadi-Nejad was victorious.
In Israel, a senior official said Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s victory was “a very
worrying development”.
“Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the most militant of the candidates, and it can only
lead his country into a confrontation with the western world,” the official
said, according to Agence France Presse.
Mr Ahmadi-Nejad has sharply heightened tensions with Israel, once pledging to
“wipe” the country off the map.
Before the results were released, President Barack Obama had hinted he was
hopeful of a change in Iran hard on the heels of the defeat of Hizbollah,
which is backed by Tehran, in last week’s Lebanese election.
“Just as has been true in Lebanon, what can be true in Iran as well...you’
re seeing people looking at new possibilities,” Mr Obama told reporters,
adding that he was excited by the “robust debate” in Iran.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fdd49372-57f9-11de-8cbb-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
CNN
Election officials: Ahmadinejad has large lead in Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/12/iran.election/index.html
WA-PO
Ahmadinejad Declared Winner of Iran Election
Clashes Break Out Among Voters as Challenger Mousavi Disputes Results
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/13/AR2009061300627.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR
AL JAZEERA
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/category.php?catid=34
REUTERS: WHAT NEXT?
SNAP ANALYSIS-Ahmadinejad heads for re-election in Iran
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55C0CS20090613
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Tehran's Take:understanding Iran's US policy
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65130/mohsen-m-milani/tehrans-take
NYT
Both Sides Claim Victory in Presidential Election in Iran
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/middleeast/13iran.html?_r=2&hp
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