Is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei doing anything to investigate possible election fraud in Iran?”
Iran’s Supreme Leader has ordered an investigation into the disputed re-election of President Ahmadinejad, reversing his earlier decree that the result was fair. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s intervention came as Iran braced itself for a third day of street protests by reformists, who claim that official voting figures giving Mr Ahmadinejad 63 per cent in last Friday’s election were rigged, and a “charade”. Ayatollah Khamenei, who has the final say on all strategic matters, had described the result as fair and urged the country to unite behind Mr Ahmadinejad. Today it emerged, however, that he had met the defeated opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi last night and ordered the powerful Guardians Council to examine his allegations of vote-rigging. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6502374.ece The Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran with whom
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader ordered Monday a probe into claims of election fraud, one day after he stated the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was following a “fair” process. State television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directing the Guardian Council to look into charges by reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. “Issues must be pursued through a legal channel,” state TV quoted the Iranian leader as saying.
