Who stole the Iranian election?

By Saybhan Samat

(June 30, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The June 12th, Iranian elections has clearly shown the attempt of the Western powers to steal the elections and promote the down fall of the ruling powers of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The media of the Western powers in the US, Britain, France and Germany have gone to unprecedented lengths to create an opinion that the elections were stolen by the government in favour of the incumbent President Ahamadinejad. Not a single shred of evidence has been furnished to prove the claim of the opposition led by Mir Hussain Mousavi. However on a daily basis unrelentless propaganda is churned out to convince everyone that the elections were a hoax.

This outrageous behaviour by the US and other Western powers is not surprising. There is hardly any election, in which the US and Western powers have a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of a pro-western candidate is not denounced as illegitimate by the entire political and mass-media elite of the Western powers. In the most recent period, the US and its other Western allies cried foul following the free and monitored elections in Venezuela and Gaza, while joyously fabricating an electoral success in Lebanon despite the fact that the Hezbollah-led coalition received over 53% of the vote.

The presidential election on June 12th in Iran is a classic case where the US and its allies stole and are continuing to steal the elections. The incumbent president Ahamadinejad received 63.3% of the vote or 24.5% million votes, while the leading Western backed liberal opposition candidate Mir Hussain Mosavi received 34.2%, 3.2 million votes. The elections drew a record turn out of 86.2% of the electorate including unprecedented overseas vote of 234,812 in which 111,792 was for Mousavi and 78,300 for Ahamadinejad.

The opposition led by Mousavi did not accept their defeat and organized a series of mass demonstrations that turned violent, resulting in the burning and destruction of automobiles, banks, public buildings and armed confrontations with the police and other authorities. Almost the entire spectrum of Western opinion makers including the entire major liberal, radical libertarian conservative and Trotskyites joined the Zionists in hailing the opposition protestors as the advance guard of a democratic revolution. Democrats and Republicans in the US condemned the incumbent regime refused to recognize the result of the vote and praised the demonstrators effort to overturn the electoral outcome. The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, the Israel Foreign Office and the entire leadership of the presidents of the major American Jewish Organizations called for harsher sanctions against Iran and announced Obama’s proposed dialogue with Iran ‘dead in the water.’ The attitude was sea deep in acrimony malice and hatred. The US and the Western allies were hell-bent on destroying the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

While the US and their European allies continue claiming that the elections
in Iran were highlighted by “ widespread fraud and manipulation” in the electoral results, friends of Iran like Sri Lanka, Armenia, Yemen, Turkey, Iraq, Belarus,Lebanon, China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Azerbaijan and Qatar demonstrated their support by dispatching congratulatory messages. Indeed many governments world-wide did not buy the US and Western claims that the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran stole the elections.

The US and the Western powers tried the same game in undermining the victory of the government of President Rajapakse against the terrorist LTTE. Having failed to save Prabhakaran they resorted to maliciously accuse the Sri Lankan Army of oppressing and killing civilians in the North and in the IDP camps, hoping to make a case for R2P. All this because President Rajapakse refused to bow and kneel before the Western powers like President Ahamadinejad.

Our Presidential and general elections are scheduled to be held in 2010-2011. We must take pain-staking care to see that the Western powers will not manipulate the elections to bring victory by means fair or foul to their unpatriotic agents in our fair land. Lessons must be learnt from the events that occurred in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Like Iran, Sri Lanka under the leadership of President Rajapakse has many friends who will support her against any diabolical conspiracies by the Western powers. Even so, the government and people must be vigilant against the machinations of local agents who are capable of destabilizing our island. The Western powers are openly supporting the Tamil diaspora and their so called Provisional Government, it is very likely that they will create the likes of what happened and is happening in Iran. The euphoria of victory against the L.T.T.E must now cease, sober contemplative vigilance must prevail among all patriotic Sri Lankans.

-Sri Lanka Guardian