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On May 22, the US moved closer to imposing a full trade embargo against Iran, as the Senate reaffirmed US support for Israel - should it be “compelled to attack Tehran’s nuclear programme in self-defence”.
The Senate voted unanimously to adopt a non-binding resolution urging Barack Obama to fully enforce existing economic sanctions against Iran and to “provide diplomatic, military and economic support” to Israel “in its defence of its territory, people and existence”.
All this is happening in the middle of an election farce in Tehran. A day before the Senate resolutions, Iran’s religious supervisory body, the Guardian Council, announced the final list of eight candidates it deemed acceptable to contest the presidential elections on June 14. It did not include either the former president and main hope of the ‘reformists’, Hashemi Rafsanjani, or the outgoing president’s chosen successor, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei.
Whoever gets elected on June 14, Iranians are resigning themselves to the fact that confrontation with the west will continue, and so crippling sanctions and devastating economic hardship will persist. The supreme leader had promised an ‘epic year’, when massive participation in the elections would prove the nation’s tenacity in confronting the foreign enemy. But the final list of mediocre candidates will make it difficult for even the most hard-line supporters of the regime to muster any enthusiasm.
The deteriorating situation has persuaded sections of the Iranian left to openly support regime change from above. In early May the Canadian government held a two-day ‘global dialogue conference’ at the University of Toronto, where foreign minister John Baird said: “The people of Iran deserve free and fair elections. Not another version of ayatollah Khamenei’s never-ending shell game of presidential puppets. Not the rise of a regressive clerical military dictatorship.”3 Also attending was Iran Tribunal prosecutor Payam Akhavan, who was quoted as saying: “Canada should continue to explore every avenue of assistance to civil society with a view to facilitating non-violent change.”4 Last weekend “republicans, leftists, constitutional monarchists and the green movement”5 joined forces to hold a two-day conference in Stockholm, at the invitation of the Swedish Democratic Party. They decided to form an umbrella organisation: United for Democracy in Iran.
In Hands Off the People of Iran we have always maintained that the Iranian people have to confront simultaneously two enemies: imperialism and their own rulers. Any compromise with either of these camps will tarnish the left and represent a betrayal of the interests of the working class. Adherence to this principle is as important today as it was in 2007, when Hopi was founded.
if this was a Zio-Nazi operation, why was its control in britain? - Looks more like a joint Brit-ZioNazi op.
AAP, Jun 3 2013 - http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/world/iran-busts-m...53890
Iran has dismantled a terror-network backed by Mossad which planned to disrupt the Jun 14 presidential election in the Islamic republic, the state broadcaster says. IRIB said on its website on Sunday, quoting a statement by the ministry:
The intelligence ministry has identified and arrested the members of this terror network, and confiscated their weapons. The network comprised 12 members, all of whom have been held. Their leader originated from a regional Arab country. The network had been instructed to conduct terrorist acts, ahead of and especially on election day, as well as creating ethnic and religious divisions in various regions. It had already hit several targets in one town. Its main culprit was in contact with a headquarters in Britain.
Iran accuses USrael of waging a deadly campaign of sabotage against its disputed nuclear program, announcing from time to time the arrest of suspected USraeli spies . . . . . Last month the Islamic republic said it had hanged two convicted spies, one found guilty of working for Israel, and the other for the CIA.
"after the debacle of the 2009 elections."
the 2009 elections were no debacle -
What WAS a debacle was the US/Zio-Nazi/Western attempted Coup-de-tat which was carried out using the tried-and-tested, and well known now to be fake, Gene-Sharp methods of declaring that there has been election fraud, even though there wasn't, and then getting useful idiots amongst the privileged upper-middle class, with their expensive smart phones and twitter accounts and US-Zio-Nazi sponsored "media training" to start rioting.
It is a FACT that the exit polling confirmed the final election tally - the exit polls were carried out by the Zogby org, and exit polling is a fairly exact science these days. The polls showed that the final result was very sound. There is little or no evidence to support the fraudulent claims that there was wide-spread election fraud., despite any claims either you or HOPI may make in that regard. The FACt is that the available exit-polls indicate that there was no wide-spread fraud at all, as alleged by HOPI and by the fake "opposition"
The only "fraud" on display after that election was the fraud being perpetrated by the US-Backed "opposition", and others that went around claiming fraud (such as hopi)
WHY THE MYTH OF IRAN’S “STOLEN” ELECTION STILL MATTERS - http://www.raceforiran.com/why-the-myth-of-iran%E2%80%9...tters
The cartoon below was typical of the coverage of Iran’s 2009 election. [The cartoon could itself be described as racist.]
In fact, ballots in Iranian elections are neither physically transported to nor counted at the Interior Ministry in Tehran.
Ballots are counted in each polling station, by election officials and candidate observers. The counts are transmitted physically and electronically to the Ministry which aggregates national results. It is the electronic transmission of counts from polling stations that allowed the Ministry to announce results as they came in from the field after polls closed on June 12, 2009.
It was compelled to do this by Mir Hossein Mousavi’s public claim he had been informed by the Ministry that he had won—a statement made while polls were still open, Iranians were still voting and not a single ballot had been counted.
As stated earlier: Pre-election polls carried out by James Zogby (hardly a pro-regime stalwart) indicated that the 2009 Election was NOT stolen - the final results tallied quite closely to the pre-election polling carried out by Zogby.
Mir Hossein Mousavi’s public claim he had been informed by the Ministry that he had won was what was fraudulent.
The so called "green movement" is to all intents and purposes actually part of a deliberately orchestrated destabilisation attempt by imperialists to remove a Gov't they consider to be an enemy, as explained in the indymedia feature article on Gene Sharpe.
see here for more information: - http://www.indymedia.ie/article/102162