Tuesday, June 23, 2009

My support to Mousavi even though I don’t have the right to do so

I don´t if you have seen what´s happening in Iran and especially in Teheran. If you don´t, well, I will tell you.
The Iran election on June 12 of 2009 got “elected” president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, showing to occident countries that Iran can practice “Democracy” (Latter I will explain it, why I put in quotations marks), opposition leader Mousavi reported that the elections were a fraud and according to Chatham House and the Institute of Iranian studies at the university of Saint Andrews, said that in two conservative provinces the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters. In Mr. Mousavi Official web page (http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com/) the 23 of June of 2009 at 17:01 UTC time, only 34 million apparently vote over 46 million eligible to vote, something that is impossible due to the great confluence of people that voted that day, as an example: only in London the embassy of Iran was opened for elections from morning until 8 pm, but they extended the hours “due to the unprecedented number of people that turned up to vote ”. Abroad Mousavi already seemed like the winner, but according to the official count Mahmound, won with 63 percent of the votes. Iran's supreme leader The Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected the allegations of fraud and the petitions of recounts of votes. Mr. Mousavi turned to his people and with the words “The country is yours” and made a hole country scream for their votes and a new campaign was born: “Were is my vote?”, which had the purpose of making the Iranian government recount the votes, and make ONG’s and other organizations be a part of this recount, also revoke the new government.
Mahmoud made it clear that he doesn´t want anyone knowing what´s happening and that Iranian affairs aren´t anybody else affairs, and although he has the full right to do so, he can´t force international journalist and opposition to silence and just step aside in this anti democracy parade. The best way to see what’s happening in the street of Teheran, is by looking at the video of Neda Agha Soltan, posted on youtube even though I do not agree in making publicity by looking in the death of somebody, I can see why Neda has became the new voice of the opposition.
So you can now see why elected is in quotations marks, and democracy as well, because they have chose a president but even him is a subordinate of the supreme leader of Iran with basically does everything as he pleases.
Seeing all of these just makes you think of how crazy the world is, as somebody said: “It’s probably better if we just talk, and most important of all: LISTEN”

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