Iran kwawaka moto

[Dua]

Violence flares as Ahmadinejad wins Iran vote

Official results show landslide for incumbent; pro-reform rival alleges 'fraud'


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Supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, some wearing green as the color of the party, protest the results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran on Saturday.




TEHRAN, Iran - Riot police battled with protesters Saturday as officials announced that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a landslide election victory. His opponent denounced the results as "treason". The violence broke out as Iran's interior minister said that Ahmadinejad had gained 62.6 percent of the vote. NBC News reported "violent clashes" between rock-throwing protesters and police in the center of Tehran.



Who doesn't want Ahmadinejad to win? Very interesting. Aren't this the tricks RA taught CCM recently?

[Dua]

Shots fired at huge Iran protest


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Gunfire has been heard at a rally in Iran where
hundreds of thousands of people were
protesting against President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad's re-election,
with one person being killed.


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Naona jana wafuasi wa ahamadinejadi ilikuwa cha mtoto.

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[Dua]

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Tatizo la kuiba kura ndio hilo. Zikifika arobaini huna pa kukimbilia.



Reporting from Tehran
It was an incredible sight. A huge crowd, hundreds of thousands of people maybe even millions of people there in defiance of open threats from the government that they should not assemble. The security forces were staying well away - we were even able to film and usually the secret police come in straight away and stop you. But the crowds were so enormous they were stepping back. As we drove out we saw rows of riot police stationed on the highway. If they have opened fire, that is going to really ratchet up this, it could be frankly a huge political mistake for those running this country.



Hundreds of thousands rallied to support candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, but a group of them was fired on from a militia base they had surrounded. Mr Mousavi has lodged a legal appeal against the result but says he is not optimistic it will succeed. He says the vote was fixed - a claim President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denies. The BBC's Jon Leyne, in Tehran, says Monday's rally was the biggest demonstration in the Islamic republic's 30-year history and described it as a "political earthquake". The government had outlawed any protest following two days of unrest, with the interior ministry warning that "any disrupter of public security would be dealt with according to the law". Despite this, correspondents said riot police had been watching the rally during the afternoon and had seemed to be taking no action. But reports at 2045 local time (1615 GMT) said shots were being fired.

"There has been sporadic shooting out there... I can see people running here," Reuters quoted a reporter of Iran's Press TV as saying from Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square. "A number of people who are armed, I don't know exactly who they are, but they have started to fire on people causing havoc in Azadi Square." A photographer at the scene told news agencies that security forces had killed one protester and seriously wounded several others. A man is said to have been arrested over the shooting. He said the shooting began when the crowd attacked a compound used by a religious militia linked to the country's powerful Revolutionary Guard. Other sources told the BBC as many as six people might have died in the incident. The AFP news agency reported that police fired tear gas and groups of protesters set motorbikes alight. A BBC correspondent said there had also been gunfire in the north of the city - traditionally an anti-government stronghold - and and that the security forces appeared to be hunting down protesters.

Ayatollah's intervention

Earlier, the demonstrators had gathered in Tehran's Enghelab (Revolution) Square, chanting pro-Mousavi slogans, before marching to Azadi Square. "Mousavi we support you. We will die, but retrieve our votes," they shouted, many wearing the green of Mousavi's election campaign. And Mr Mousavi eventually appeared, addressing the crowd from the roof of his car. "The vote of the people is more important than Mousavi or any other person," he told his supporters. His wife, Zahra Rahnavard, a high-profile supporter of her husband's campaign, later said they would keep up their protests. "We will stand until the end," she told the AFP. The renewed protests come after Mr Mousavi and fellow defeated candidate Mohsen Rezai filed official complaints against the election result with the Guardian Council - the country's powerful clerical group.

State television reported that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has upheld the election result, urged the Guardian Council to "precisely consider" the complaints. The 12-member council is due to meet Mr Mousavi and Mr Rezai on Tuesday. Its head said the decision would be taken soon. "I hope it will not take long that the noble people will see that the question has been examined in the best way and we will give the result to the people," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati told state television on Monday. But the Iranian leadership has put itself in an impossible position, our Tehran correspondent says. He says that Ayatollah Khamenei has given his complete endorsement to the election result and to President Ahmadinejad, and by doing so he has put at risk the very foundations of the Islamic republic. And Mr Mousavi's website quoted him as telling crowds on Monday that he was "not very optimistic" about the judgment of the Guardian Council. "Many of its members during the election were not impartial and supported the government candidate," Mr Mousavi said.

Dozens of opposition activists have been arrested since the protests began, while internet sites appear to have been blocked and the media heavily restricted. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was following the situation closely. "The position of me and the United Nations is that the genuine will of the Iranian people should be fully respected," he told reporters. EU foreign ministers expressed "serious concern" and called for an inquiry into the conduct of the election, while France and Germany each summoned their Iranian ambassadors to explain what was going on. German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the use of "completely unacceptable" force against protesters and called for a "transparent evaluation of the election result".

Groups of Ahmadinejad supporters gathered outside French and British embassies in Tehran, protesting against what they consider to be foreign interference in Iran's affairs. "We have gathered here to protest the hidden interference of the Brits and the world, who are trying to create chaos in our country," one protester said. The French government issued a statement saying they had told Iranian diplomats that security forces "must protect the French embassy". Among the countries congratulating Mr Ahmadinejad on his victory were Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela and North Korea.

Nafikiri hapa tunaona Preamble tu habari zenyewe bado.

[Dua]

Reporting from Tehran


The government demonstration today certainly didn't look on the scale of the opposition demonstration on Monday, and also the people didn't look as enthusiastic.

I think the opposition has been slightly disrupted. They were going to have a rally in the same location and decided not to to avoid confrontation. The rally that has broken out this evening is completely spontaneous. Just people who have been exchanging e-mails and somehow worked out where everyone is gathering. They have closed down the mobile phone network here but people are still managing to communicate.

There is no doubt in my mind that the opposition are not being deterred, even by the shooting there was at the demonstrators in Tehran yesterday and reportedly in seveal other cities.


Supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi have held another big rally in northern Tehran, witnesses say. The protest came hours after Mr Mousavi urged them not to march in the centre of the city where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's supporters were rallying. Tough new restrictions on the foreign media mean the BBC is unable to confirm the scale of the opposition protest. It came despite an offer to recount votes the opposition disputes. The new media restrictions have been imposed amid apparent surprise and concern among the authorities at the scale of popular defiance over Friday's official election results, correspondents say. President Ahmadinejad was declared the easy victor of the presidential poll on Saturday, with results giving him 63% of votes against 34% for Mr Mousavi.

But the opposition alleged widespread irregularities. The powerful Guardian Council says it is ready to recount some votes from the poll, in a move backed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But opposition candidates have demanded a full re-run of the election. Anger at the official result saw hundreds of thousands of Mr Mousavi's supporters take to the streets on Monday - in a rally the size of which correspondents said not been seen in Tehran since the 1979 revolution.

'Bussed in'

A witness told the BBC that Tuesday's rally was even bigger than Monday's - though this cannot be independently confirmed. .... ....

Huo moto wa Iran utaweza kuzimwa? The people have worken up!

[QUTE]

Kweli enough is enough. hivi Ayatollah alitegemea ataendelea kuwaburuza wanachi wa Iran mpaka lini?

[Dua]

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Mr Hossein Mousavi's supporters say the election has been rigged


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Supporters of Ahmadinejad march in the Capital in show of support


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The powerful Guardian Council said it was ready to recount .....

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Mousavi supporters on Tuesday ....

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Mousavi supporters on a number of countries around the world ......

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Amateur footpage has also emerged showing pro-government nilitia apparently firing at opposition demostrators .....

Wana historia watakumbuka jinsi Shah Pahlavi alivyokimbilia USA miaka ya 1980?s na hata generation haijapita Iranians wanaonyesha jinsi wasivyopenda watawala wa kiimla na ki-dictactorship. WTZ tujifunze nini?

CCM pamoja na kula hazina ya BOT na kuwa na Mafisadi kede kede bado wanapeta , Je tupo dunia ipi? Pengine ni ya kusadikika.

[Max Shimba]

Hivi haya maelfu ya watu kweli wapiga kura? Maana namba ni kubwa sana ya wanao protest ushindi wa Ahmadinejad

[Dua]

Blame on the British. Wanaochochea maandamano ni Waingereza - give me a break yaani huyu pamoja na kuwa Nuclear power i.e super power bado anasingizia wakoloni?

Mbaazi akikosa maua ... .... ......

[mwanakijiji]

Sijui huko Irani watamalizana vipip maana kifo cha yule mdada kimewauma watu wengi kweli; mimi mmojawapo. Ahmedinajad anaweza kujikuta anakuwa impeached.. the guy is too stubborn.