Iran Election Reactions
June 15th, 2009
Gunfire from a pro-government militia killed one man and wounded several others Monday after hundreds of thousands of chanting opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad marched in central Tehran to support their pro-reform leader in his first public appearance since disputed elections. The outpouring in Azadi, or Freedom, Square for reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi followed a decision by Iran’s most powerful figure for an investigation into the vote-rigging allegations. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered an investigation into fraud allegations in Ahmadinejad’s re-election that have sparked the worst unrest in Tehran in a decade. The move came after Khamenei had urged the nation to unite behind Ahmadinejad a day after Friday’s election and called the result a “divine assessment.” As supreme leader, Khamenei has final say in all government matters in Iran — above the elected president and parliament — wielding power through his domination of unelected clerical bodies, as well as the judiciary and security forces, including the elite Revolutionary Guard. (AP)
An Iranian man paints over campaign slogans near the headquarters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was set for a landslide victory in Iran’s presidential race, crushing his moderate rival and Western hopes of change in the Islamic republic. But supporters of his main challenger, ex-premier Mousavi, cried foul and some were beaten by police as they gathered in Tehran to await the final results, an AFP correspondent said. Mousavi’s name is written in green while Ahmadinejad’s name is written on top of it (L) in black. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi shouts slogans during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner by a landslide in Iran’s hotly-disputed presidential vote, triggering riots by opposition supporters and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
An injured supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi covers his bloodied face during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner by a landslide in Iran’s hotly-disputed presidential vote, triggering riots by opposition supporters and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi stand near a burning bus during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner by a landslide in Iran’s hotly-disputed presidential vote, triggering riots by opposition supporters and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
A supporter of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi flashes the victory sign as fellow demonstrators shout slogans during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner by a landslide in Iran’s hotly-disputed presidential vote, triggering riots by opposition supporters and furious complaints of cheating from his defeated rivals. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranians run for cover during riots by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Police fired tear gas at rioters in Tehran as supporters of Mousavi swept through the Iranian capital, some pelting stones at baton-wielding policemen in protest at the disputed election results. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
An injured Iranian riot policeman (L) is evacuated during riots by supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran on June 13, 2009. Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a crushing victory in Iran’s hotly-disputed presidential vote, according to official results that triggered mass opposition protests. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tyres and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad celebrate during a rally at Valiasr square on June 14, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Crowds of people gathered in central Tehran to celebrate the re-election of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won a second four-year term in a landslide election victory on June 12. (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)
Thousands of supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hold portraits of the president whilst waving national flags during a rally in Valiasr square on June 14, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Tens of thousands of people have joined a rally in central Tehran to celebrate the re-election of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president won a second four-year term in a landslide election victory on June 12, 2009. (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)
Thousands of supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hold portraits of the president whilst waving national flags during a rally in Valiasr square on June 14, 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Tens of thousands of people have joined a rally in central Tehran to celebrate the re-election of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president won a second four-year term in a landslide election victory on June 12, 2009. (Photo by Majid/Getty Images)
Iranian plain clothes policemen beat a demonstrator with batons during a protest against the election results in Tehran on June 14, 2009. Violence erupted for the second day in Tehran as supporters of the Islamic republic’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi clashed with riot police after an election that has set off deep divisions in the oil-rich republic. (AFP/Getty Images)
A supporter of Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (portrait-L) holds up a poster bearing a picture of Jerusalem’s holy Dome of the Rock mosque with the slogan “Our war will culminate with the takeover of Palestine”, during a massive rally to celebrate his victory in the presidential elections in Tehran’s Valiasr square on June 14, 2009. Ahmadinejad defended his June 12 re-election but his defeated rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, demanded the result be scrapped, setting the stage for further tense confrontations after the authorities cracked down on opposition protests. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian students, supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, try to keep clear of tear gas at the main entrance of Tehran university during riots in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2009. Iranian youth opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took to the streets Sunday, setting trash dumpsters and tires on fire, in a second day of clashes triggered by voter fraud claims. (AP Photo)
Iranian demonstrators run for cover as policemen use tear gas to disperse the crowd during a protest against the election results in Tehran on June 14, 2009. Violence erupted for the second day in Tehran as supporters of the Islamic republic’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi clashed with riot police after an election that has set off deep divisions in the oil-rich republic. (AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, react, as he speaks at a rally in Vali Asr square in Tehran, Iran Sunday, June 14, 2009. Protesters set fires and smashed store windows Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities but Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest, the worst in a decade in Tehran, as “not important.” (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Supporters of Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wave national flags (R) during a massive rally to celebrate his victory in the presidential elections in Tehran’s Valiasr square on June 14, 2009. Ahmadinejad defended his June 12 re-election but his defeated rival, Mir Hossein Mousavi, demanded the result be scrapped, setting the stage for further tense confrontations after the authorities cracked down on opposition protests. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Riot police look on as supporters of opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi march in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in silence through central Tehran on Monday to protest Iran’s disputed presidential election in an extraordinary show of defiance that appeared to be the largest antigovernment demonstration here since the 1979 revolution. (The New York Times)
A suspected member of a pro-government militia, center, is taken away by unidentified people after he was beaten by demonstrators during a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Some hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mousavi, who claims there was election fraud in Friday’s vote. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A protester allegedly injured by gunfire from pro-government militia is helped by another protester near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mousavi, who claims there was election fraud in Friday’s vote. (AP photo/Vahid Salemi)
A suspected member of a pro-government militia, center, beats people at a rally of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Some hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mousavi, who claims there was election fraud in Friday’s presidential vote. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Protesters attack a building belonging to a pro-government militia near the scene of a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mousavi, who claims there was election fraud in Friday’s vote. (AP photo/Vahid Salemi)
A member of a pro-government militia, left, stands guard on a rooftop of their base as demonstrators approach, near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Shots were fired and at least man was killed. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mousavi, who claims there was election fraud in Friday’s vote. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday’s election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Smoke billows from a burning car as supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi attack a local base of the Islamic Basij militia after a protestor was shot dead outside the base in Tehran on June 15, 2009. One protestor was shot dead and several were wounded during a rally in Tehran staged by hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AFP/Getty Images)
A demonstrator spray-paints a slogan in Farsi on the Freedom Tower, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday’s election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Writing in Farsi reads “Salute to Mousavi, Down with the dictator”. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Unidentified demonstrators show signs outside the Iranian embassy in Rome, Monday June, 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Tehran, Iran, Monday, in a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir. Hossein Mousavi. who claimed there was election fraud in Friday’s vote. Sign at center says: “Election fraud is an immoral act.” (AP Photo/Angelo Carconi)
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday’s election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi stand at the gate of their university campus during a rally in Tehran on June 15, 2009. A protestor was reportedly shot dead by police in Tehran as massive crowds of people defied a ban to stage a rally against the disputed re-election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
A man who sustained a gunshot wound to his right leg, in an area where pro-government militia were firing shots in the air, is carried to a nearby car to be taken away to hospital, near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands gathered in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran to support Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday’s election. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
Students hold banners one of them reads ”Where is my vote” at the gate of Tehran university in Tehran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Overnight, police and militia stormed the campus at the city’s biggest university, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students angry over what they claim was election fraud. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
A poster of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, is seen on broken door in a room in Tehran University dormitory after it was attacked by militia forces during riots in Tehran, Iran in the early hours of Monday, June 15, 2009. Overnight, police and militia stormed the campus at the city’s biggest university, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students angry over what they claim was election fraud. (AP photo)
Two students hold a shirt covered by blood stains allegedly belonging to a student who was attacked by militia the previous night at a dormitory ,at the gate of Tehran university in Tehran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Overnight, police and militia stormed the campus at the city’s biggest university, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students angry over what they claim was election fraud. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi waves at his supporters during a rally in Tehran on June 15, 2009. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi march in Tehran on June 15, 2009. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests. In the background is a poster of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Iranian supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi take march in Tehran on June 15, 2009. Opposition supporters defied a ban to stage a mass rally in Tehran in protest at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide election win, as Iran faced a growing international backlash over the validity of the election and the subsequent crackdown on opposition protests. In the background is a poster of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)
Supporters of reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi show victory signs during a rally in Azadi Street in Tehran, Monday, June 15, 2009. Monday’s outpouring for Mousavi swelling as more poured from buildings and side streets wearing the trademark green of his campaign followed a decision by Iran’s most powerful figure for an investigation into the vote rigging allegations. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
Iranian riot policemen stand guard outside the British embassy in Tehran on June 15, 2009 during a protest by supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against European interference in the Islamic Republic’s latest election results. EU foreign ministers expressed “serious concern” at Tehran’s crackdown on opposition protesters and called for a probe into the conduct of the June 12 presidential election. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
Protestors set fires in a main street in Tehran, Iran in the early hours of Monday, June 15, 2009. Iran’s supreme leader ordered Monday an investigation into allegations of election fraud, marking a stunning turnaround by the country’s most powerful figure and offering hope to opposition forces who have waged street clashes to protest the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The results touched off three days of clashes the worst unrest in Tehran in a decade. Protesters set fires and battled anti-riot police, including a clash overnight at Tehran University after 3,000 students gathered to oppose the election results. (AP Photo)
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