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Iran Accuses Some Foreign Outlets of Being “Mouthpiece of Rioters”
20 June 2009
Iranian foreign ministry accused on Wednesday some foreign outlets of being the "mouthpiece of rioters" and warning websites about their reports on the presidential election. The elite Revolutionary Guards told those writing online to delete reports that create tension and also accused Western intelligence services of inspiring stories to stir up trouble. "Those who promote riots and threaten people in cyberspace are warned that they can face very heavy legal action from us. We want them to remove such material," the Revolutionary Guards statement said. The foreign ministry, referring to the "presence of hundreds of foreign media (personnel)" during Friday's election, charged that "some countries, in an uncalculated, hasty and rude reaction towards the illegal gatherings, have supported them... and have become the mouthpiece of the rioters' movement." The foreign ministry statement carried by the ISNA news agency was directed at "interfering comments by some Western countries, officials and media." The Guards, set up to defend the Islamic republic, said the troublesome websites had been identified and are "financially and technically sponsored by Canadian and American firms which are backed by the US, British intelligence services. The head of Tehran's city council, and staunch supporter of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Chamran was quoted on the official IRNA news agency as saying that the "foreign media had been planning the riots for some time." Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday that his re-election was proof of the people's faith in his previous four-year government. "The election result confirmed the work of the ninth government which was based on honesty and service to the people," the president said in a statement carried on the ISNA news agency the day after his return from Russia. "Twenty-five million people confirmed this kind of management of the country and it is now engraved in the revolution," said Ahmadinejad, referring to the number of votes he won in Friday's election according to official results. Meanwhile, Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi renewed his call for a re-run of last week's election that in what he called a "shameful fraud". The 67-year-old former premier, who has lodged a formal complaint over what he says was a rigged election, vowed to continue with his campaign with peaceful rallies, in a statement issued on his website. Leading pro-reform cleric Grand Ayatollah Abdolkarim Mousavi Ardabili also called on the authorities to look quickly into complaints over the election in order to allay people's concerns. "We are seeking a calm protest against the unhealthy way the election was held and are pursuing our aim of cancelling the election and repeating it in a manner that guarantees the previous shameful fraud does not happen again," Mousavi said. Mousavi said the vote was marred by "blatant irregularities," after official results gave him 34 percent of the vote against 63 percent for Ahmadinejad. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has asked the electoral supervisory body, the Guardians Council, to investigate the allegations and has agreed to consider a partial recount if deemed necessary. "If the examination of the problems require recounting of some ballot boxes, it should definitely be done in the presence of the candidates' representatives so that everybody is reassured," he said. Mousavi himself called on his supporters to hold a march and a day of mourning on Thursday for protesters slain in the post-election clashes. "As you know in recent days as a result of illegal and violent crackdown on critics and protesters over the presidential election results, a number of our compatriots were martyred and wounded," he said.
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