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Iran Says Election Day Bomb Plot Uncovered; Council Offers to Meet Candidates
19 June 2009
Iranian authorities have uncovered a plot that was aimed at carrying out bomb attacks on the day of the presidential election last week, state television reported on Thursday. "The bombers, who have extensive ties with foreigners, sought to sabotage the election and create unrest," the report said. They had identified 20 spots in Tehran, of which Hosseiniyah Ershad was the main target, it added. Hosseiniyah Ershad, in northern Tehran, is a landmark religious and cultural centre where many people in the capital go to vote. The centre was also used by Iranian leaders to address the masses during the 1979 Islamic revolution. Meanwhile, Iran's elite Guardian Council, a 12-member panel of senior Islamic clergy and jurists who are investigating allegations of fraud in last week's election results, Thursday invited the four candidates for president to a special meeting Saturday to review their concerns. "We decided to personally invite the esteemed candidates and those who have complaints regarding the election to take part in an extraordinary session of the Guardian Council to discuss their concerns with the members directly so that we will be able to make a decision," Abbas Ali Kadkhodai, a spokesman for the council, told Iran's state television Thursday. The announcement came shortly before opposition leaders began marching again in the streets of Tehran, as they have each day since Saturday, when the Interior Ministry declared that results from Friday's balloting showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected in a landslide. And on Friday, defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi joined tens of thousands of his supporters on Thursday at a rally in Tehran to mourn the deaths of slain protesters. Pro-Mousavi protesters held marches to keep up pressure on the authorities over the presidential election results as Iran's Intelligence Ministry said that it has arrested a number of 'main agents', who masterminded the recent post-election violence in Tehran. In defiance of an official ban, Mousavi called upon his supporters to take the streets dressed in black as a sign of mourning for protesters killed in the post-election clashes, in a statement published on his movement's website. The slain demonstrators were killed when they attacked military positions in the capital Tehran for arms. Iranian authorities lashed out at enemy "plots" and threatened legal action against websites which publish material that cause more tension in the republic. Supreme Iranian leader Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei said he would consider a partial recount of ballots in contested areas adding that told the Guardians Council, a 12-member body made up of jurists and clerics, to examine the complaints of irregularities. 80% of Iran’s eligible voters took part in the elections last Friday. According to the interior ministry, 24 million people voted for Ahmadinejad while 11 million people gave their votes to Mousavi. Observers have said that there is no way to manipulate the results as the gap between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi is 13 million votes. But on Wednesday Mousavi repeated his demand for the results of the election, which he branded a "shameful fraud", to be annulled and a new vote called. Thousands Mousavi’s supporters have been burning tires, cars and attacking military posts, what prompted Ahmadinejad supporters to take to the streets to stage a demonstration against riots and vandalism. The Western media has been mobilized to support Mousavi and his supporters, in what many observers have seen as an opportunity the West is seeking to change the regime in the Islamic Republic. Iran's Intelligence Ministry said that it arrested a number of 'main agents', who masterminded the recent post-election violence in Tehran. "The Intelligence Ministry has identified and arrested a number of the main agents and elements behind acts of vandalism in recent days in Tehran," said Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Eje'i. He added that the Intelligence Ministry has a responsibility to arrest and prosecute members of 'some groups which enter public rallies and attempt to cause unrest and chaos'.
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