As the crowds grew the oligarchs realized that this was not just a whim by the people. Deaths from demonstrating has risen to 150 Friday and Saturday according to some sources. Image
But the will of the people cannot be suppressed indefinitely or even for a few hours. The act of defiance is the true victory. Nothing is the same after that. Image
There are reports of a divide forming in the government. The conservative speaker of Iran's legislative body, the Majlis, just said that there are serious doubts about the election.
Even worse for the oligarchs, the movement of the people has a symbol - Neda, an assassinated Iranian woman - that is spreading around the world today.
Here's the Iranian citizen Neda, to the left, before being shot. She's walking next to her father in the blue shirt. YouTube June 20, 2009
Here's Neda after being shot by a paramilitary sniper. She's comforted by her father and people in the crowd attending to her. After someone said, "don't give up" she died. Cries of grief can be heard in the background. YouTube June 20, 2009
Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei, his puppet Ahmadinejad, and their apologists who claim that this was a fair and representative election now face their worst nightmare. That nightmare is an examination of the facts of the election that point directly to election fraud and a rigged outcome (See Iranian Election Fraud 2009). Their success follows the efforts to those who fought the theft of the 2006 Mexican presidential election, those ridiculed for doubting the 2004 U.S. election, plus all the others who defy the election fantasies produced by oligarchs and their minions.
Why was there a purge of reformists and moderates at the election ministry before the election? Why was there police intimidation at the polls? Why were results announced within hours of the close of voting showing an Ahmadinejad victory? In past elections, it has taken three days to count votes. Why the hurry? How did the votes get counted in just a fraction of the normal time?
Just a simple review of past elections shows solid majorities for reformist candidates from 1989 through 2001. Even the 2005 election of Ahmadinejad, boycotted by reformists, showed their underlying strength. After four years of a failed economy and isolation in the region and the world, we're expected to believe that reformist supporters defected in droves to elect the author of the nation's suffering, the pretender president Ahmadinejad.
Neoconservatives and other con artists are now claiming to support the Iranian people. Some are the same people who pushed to bomb Iran preemptively just a few years ago. Others, who stood on the sidelines to see who would "win," are now defenders of clean elections. It doesn't matter to the Iranian's demanding respect and self determination. For them, the real victory will be to emerge as a free nation that's outside of the "great game" of the major powers.
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