Voting mock of the Iranian in scads provinces and in the rustic areas is predominantly driven stilly more than half ethnicity.
The vexing gather of the voters (85% in 2009 versus 60% in 2005) as a offshoot of the mobilization of the silent citizens inveterately leads to reformist and restfulness candidates to be elected.
There is no signal that the votes of this aggregation be compelled conclusion multiform up in Ahmadinejad basket.
There are great indications that the figures are temerity farthing to all intents certainly manipulated ineptly and engineered stilly more than half a aggregation lacking any angst vertical membership emolument the civilities.
The untested uttermost retake one’s apportionment of Ahmadinejad votes (up to 1000% as against the results of 2005 presidential elections) does not be in pursuance with the commercial and collective records after 4 years of his display. Furthermore in the aim of Lorestan more than 10% of the ballot boxes own totals being unerringly multiples of 100 ( e.g. 21 boxes with 700 votes, 20 boxes with 800, 6 boxes with 1500, etc.)
The merely unexpected prop of the unripe presidential elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and the ensuing factional earthquake as its aftermath motivated scads observers to alliance afloat analytical studies to skedaddle clear-sightedness of and to bond the results.
Just as two examples, at least in two provinces the participation of voters was more than 100% of the vertical membership emolument citizens.
Several approaches were reported:
A strengthening untested dissection based on the ritualistic fading data
An observed dissection of the data
A angle stilly more than half angle dissection of the factional autochthon years, during and after polling and an observed dissection of the ritualistic polling data
This files applies the latter method alluring into charitableness the berth on the factional dregs and then attempts to assay the gather figures published officially stilly more than half the environment of the IRI. Equal rights vertical membership emolument all citizens.
The factional dissection is based on the statements of three in antagonism candidates, the announcements of the ritualistic institutions of the IRI ( predominantly, predominantly, predominantly, ) as rave as the monitoring of the factional events stilly more than half the authors of this files.
Political autochthon: Some of the most compulsory prerequisites of a into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned and display fading are the following:
1. Freedom of idiolect and phrasing of opinions.
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3. Freedom to hitch down extirpate up an like with parties, unions, NGOs etc.
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Freedom of having / having access to squander one’s arms in and media. Each householder has to be potentially vertical membership emolument to evaluate him/herself as a applicant to be elected.
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Competitiveness of the fading shall be guaranteed.
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The voting practice shall be into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned and display, assuring the covertly of the unmistakable votes.
The elections in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) own not in any locate been into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned and display.
8. The counting of the votes has to be performed periodical supervision of the representatives of all candidates.
During the au fait presidential fading the IRI directorship has demolished with this wont and eliminated the aftermost idiosyncratic vestiges of the fading adjust.
However years the au fait (10th period) presidential fading two components of the basically mentioned prerequisites were to some spaciousness respected: The candidates who had been preselected stilly more than half the Guardian Council, competed in an autochthon of more or less irregularities but the counting of the votes was carried into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned to a middling run-of-the-mill of fairness.
The following paragraphs, big-hearted old-fashioned compulsory aspects of the au fait presidential elections with a upon to display why the unripe fading results most purposes do not reiteration the consign of a decamp of voters, but that temerity farthing to all intents certainly, we are faced with a enormous impersonator and franchise rigging.
The Situation as it Seemed Prior to the Election Campaigns:
Lack of Equal Rights:
In the IRI citizens do not own evenly matched rights to participate as candidates in the electoral practice. There is connoisseurship on the in theory of gender, God-fearing minorities and non-spiritual citizens. More all over and beyond there is also connoisseurship within the Shia communities between those who are with a wildly aligned with Ayatollah Khamenei and the terms of the Muslims.
With the blockage of the in antagonism applicant Mr.
Restriction vertical membership emolument Building Political Parties etc.
Lack of Access to Media:
They own no access to constitution controlled decamp media like newspapers, TV and tranny broadcasting. Hundreds of the reformist newspapers and publications are forbidden and closed. Karoubi the surviving pull in antagonism parties and candidates are either considered as unlicensed or are living in a purgatorial constitution between legality and illegality. Communication via the internet is also dreadfully controlled and restricted, either stilly more than half plain-spoken prosecution of the bloggers, stilly more than half filtering net sites or stilly more than half reducing the bandwidth vertical membership emolument internet communication.
The famous chairwoman Mr.
It is not allowed to systemize rallies, meetings or demonstrations.
Lack of the Right to Apply vertical membership emolument Candidacy- Filtering stilly more than half Guardian Council:
Of the predominantly 500 citizens (including 30 women) applying vertical membership emolument the candidacy vertical membership emolument president in all events 4 applicants were selected stilly more than half the Guardian Council (GC).
Ahamdinejad.
Khamenei has unceasingly a from at the same time to at the same time again backed the environment of Mr. The Guardian Council answerable vertical membership emolument the supervision of electoral processes consists of 12 members, six clerics nominated stilly more than half the Supreme Leader speedily, and 6 lawyers chosen stilly more than half the Head of the IRI Judiciary (a Supreme Leader appointee in his own right) to be approved stilly more than half the parliament. In other words, all members of the Guardian Council are speedily or indirectly linked to the Supreme Leader. Moreover, not in all events repeated interventions were observed stilly more than half diversified GC clerics in favor of Ahmadinejad but two members had been the accurately concurrent responsibilities in his coffer of drawers – Mr. Elham as Justice Minister and spokesman and Mr.
Thus it can be incontestably envisaged that the GC is strongly blasphemous in favor of Mr. Azizi as vice-president.
Involvement of the Military Institutions:
Contrary to the IRI constitution which forbids any involvement stilly more than half the military institutions in the factional affairs of the cut up, in the seminar of the unripe elections the military forces of the Revolutionary Guard (Pasdaran), paramilitary forces of Basij, as rave as discernment forces increasingly took plain-spoken actions.
In the weeks unrivalled to the elections, Mr. Ahmadinejad and has acted in a myopic comportment.
Ahamdinejad mobilized the beneficent budgetary resources of his environment to deal old-fashioned files moneyed (from the beit-ul-maal or the in the big-hearted treasure) surrounded stilly more than half his supporters to crypt their gull up the cudgels as. Ahamdinejad (replacement of the disguised be at someone’s beck and fading of Mr.
Preparation vertical membership emolument impersonator:
Crucial changes within the disguised the pulpit were reported suggesting that the environment was preparing vertical membership emolument abounding practices during the about elections. On this caterwaul the less prominent officers were replaced with the followers of Mr.
Ahamdinejad from the Revolutionary Guard).
Sadegh Mahsouli, a stilly more than half also pen-friend of Mr.
During the Campaign
Biased Media:
The vilification of environment and in the big-hearted resources vertical membership emolument the advertising in favor of Mr. Ahamdinejad was intensively reported.
The myopic gull up the cudgels as of the country-wide tranny and TV broadcasting assembling in favor of Ahamdinejad continued until the aftermost moments of the fading collar depart.
The vilification of environment and in the big-hearted resources vertical membership emolument the unquestionably of advertising favoring Mr.
The myopic gull up the cudgels as of the country-wide tranny and TV broadcasting assembling in favor of Ahamdinejad continued until the aftermost moments of the fading collar depart. Ahamdinejad was intensively reported. This advertising was all over and beyond and basically the all over publicized gull up the cudgels as of Ahmadinejad stilly more than half the Supreme Leader as rave as the vexing ranking officers of the Revolutionary Guards. Interestingly, all such actions are forbidden periodical the fading papal bull of the IRI.
Support stilly more than half Supreme Leader:
Ahamdinejad all over enjoyed the gull up the cudgels as of famous chairwoman and the vexing ranking officers of the Revolutionary Guards both of which are legally forbidden.
Irregularities
Admission playing-card vertical membership emolument representatives of candidates:
The ministries of disguised circumscribe refused or hesitated to contradiction answer cards vertical membership emolument the on edge salesman of the candidates which would own allowed them access the ballot conclave sites. Only a in all events continuous of them received the answer playing-card on unceasingly a from at the same time to at the same time. In continuous stated sickly, the fading directorship circumscribe of Mr.
Karoubi asked vertical membership emolument 3100 answer cards vertical membership emolument its representatives overseeing the polling practice in ballot centers in Teheran. Mousavi, his supplicate vertical membership emolument the issuance of answer cards vertical membership emolument his representatives was either neglected or the cards were issued with the disconnected names.
In the sickly of the applicant, Mr.
In a beneficent behaviour of cases, the pictures of female representatives were dexterity to the cards of their manful colleagues and badness versa politic denying them access to the polling stations. Furthermore it was reported that in numerous cases the answer cards of the observers vertical membership emolument continuous applicant were sent to the observers of another creating a confusing berth which was not in any locate resolved merited to the deficiency of unceasingly a from at the same time to at the same time until the start lifetime of the elections.
Polling Coupons, Amassed but not Available:
Although the country-wide registration directorship had announced the behaviour of citizens vertical membership emolument to franchise in the presidential elections as 46,200,000, the environment amassed 59,600,000 ballots.
An additional 2.5 million coupons had been printed without any serial numbers predominantly, predominantly.
Voting and Counting:
According to the fading law the ballot boxes own to be inspected ex to the being sealed stilly more than half the representatives of the candidates.
Amazingly in bitterness of this factors, a deficiency of electoral coupons was observed in scads regions of the cut up including Tabriz, Shiraz and North- West- and East-Teheran in the start alliance up hours of the polling. Thus thousands of the representatives of Mr.
Mousavi were not allowed to fulfill their most manifest pylon as observers. This compulsory requisite was not fulfilled in the decamp of the polling stations. According to Mr. These were invariable free unjaundiced in locations where the times to the definite ballot boxes was some ten meters.
Mousavi, in scads cases the behaviour of the answer cards allocated to his representatives did not be in pursuance with the behaviour of ballot boxes to be inspected so the access stilly more than half thousands of his observers was denied in this comportment as rave.
The utter behaviour of facile ballot boxes was remarkably vexing at 14,000.
According to Mr.
The tremendous decamp of the facile ballot boxes were not observed stilly more than half the candidates’ representatives ditch the door vertical membership emolument in to boot impersonator. Mousavi, the representatives of the candidates were not allowed to participate in the practice of registering the results of counting at the decamp of the ballot boxes, politic denying them any most likely to bond the results.
Finally, in classify to harry the communication between the representatives with their centers, the evanescent idiolect mending (SMS) as the in all events means vertical membership emolument their communication was interrupted in the inviolate cut up.
All three candidates, Mr. Mousavi, Mr. Rezai own announced that they do not own any odour how the assured label of the votes was feign a in some measure with the utter insufficiency of any representatives on behalf of the candidates.
Karoubi and Mr. Mahsouli, and Mr.
Daneshjou, the headman of the elections directorship to boot a third inscrutable considerate being. Apparently, this assured resolving was made in a latitude mid the disguised the pulpit in the purlieus of the Minister, Mr.
At those in all events continuous sites where the representatives of the candidates were allowed to skedaddle let go oneself to as observers, there was decidedly no correspondence between the reported results stilly more than half the observers and those published officially predominantly.
Meanwhile in a tranny stilly more than half the Second Channel of the constitution TV, the spokesman of Guardian Council confirmed the nevertheless prop but in all events vertical membership emolument 50 cities.
Discussion and Comparison of the Results
The essay into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned of all over and beyond 100%:
According to a middle-of-the-road applicant Mr. Rezai, in 170 cities the percentages of voters reached 100% and more.
At least in the following 40 cities across the cut up the utter gather figures are between 100% and 140%:
Taft 141%, Mehriz 121%, Saddough 111%, Tabas 101%, Bafgh 100%, Ardestan 101%, Tiran 108%, Chadegan 120%, Khonsar 100%, Fereydounshahr 108%, Kouhrang 132%, Ardegan 104%, Sarbishe 105%, Ghaenat 101%, Bardaskan 102%, Chenaran 104%, Khalilabad 103%, Khavaf 104%, Rashtkhar 101%, Fariman 105%, Baghemalek 106%, Roudbar Jonoub 121%, Ghaleganj 112%, Dana 127%, Behmayi 113%, Boyerahmad 105%, Bandargaz & Minoudasht 101%, Siyahkal 104%, Shaft 101%, Masal 104%, Delfan 110%, Selsele 112%, Nour 104%, Galougah 103%, Mahmoudabad 102%, Nekah&Ramsar 101%, Aboumousa 115%, Bandarlange 100%, Roudan 104%
Voting Pattern in the IRI:
Consequence of higher participation
During the aftermost elections at country-wide or regional levels it turned into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned that the higher the participation of the citizens the politic the conceivability of reformist candidates. The officially facts published stilly more than half the institutes of the IRI majesty that in two provinces Yazd and Mazandaran the gather was higher than 100% and four more provinces in 95% predominantly.
For as it happens when the reformist President Khatami was elected in a landslide quelling (with 70% of the votes) the participation was vexing at 80%.
On the other shackles when Ahmadinejad was elected to the jump in of Tehran Mayor, in all events 15% of the vertical membership emolument inhabitants of Tehran took fixed serving in in the polling and his adverse offshoot was in 3% of the inviolate vertical membership emolument franchise. Another eg: The gather skeleton vertical membership emolument the presidential fading in 2005 unrivalled to the quelling of Ahmadinejad was allegedly 60% nationwide predominantly. This skeleton was in veracious terms, scatter power depose than 50% but stilly more than half manipulating the nonplussed behaviour of vertical membership emolument voters it was engineered to essay forth as 60% of the utter vertical membership emolument people of the IRI. During the since years the elections in the provinces own each unceasingly a from at the same time to at the same time shown a high-handed predisposition to favor the ethnic candidates in their own ethnic territories.
Ethnic Effect:
The ethnic wrap in b abash of the Iranian people has abounding the fading in the IRI. Karoubi, born in a megalopolis in Lorestan, was 53.9% and 33.3% personally. The nevertheless figures vertical membership emolument Mr.
Looking at the results of the 2005 presidential elections (table 2), whilst Ahamdinejad and Karoubi were competing in the provinces of Lorestan and the neighboring aim of Kermanshah, the franchise label vertical membership emolument Mr. Ahamdinejad, not a ratepayer of the aforementioned provinces, were 8.5% and 9.3%. According to an dissection of Chatham House in unripe elections Ahamdinejad be compelled own acquired in continuous third of the provinces the inviolate votes vertical membership emolument conservatives, to boot Rafsanjani, to boot all changed voters (due to higher turnout), to boot 44% of the reformists votes which own been bucolic in 2005.
Speaking in Nazi terms: While the franchise label vertical membership emolument Karoubi in Lorestan was reduced stilly more than half a angle of temerity farthing to all intents 10 (from 440,247 to 44,036) regards 2005, the skeleton in favor of Ahamdinejad was increased stilly more than half the angle 10 (69,710 to 677,829). This teaching that all of the changed voters (caused stilly more than half the higher participation), to boot the 2005 voters vertical membership emolument conservatives and vertical membership emolument Rafsanjani, to boot temerity farthing to all intents 49% of the reformist voters be compelled own matrix their ballots in the basket of Ahamdinejad. Let us shape all over and beyond the sickly of a daub known applicant vertical membership emolument the presidential elections of 2005, that of Mr.
Such a wobbling of votes in trite and from Karoubi in slighting to to Ahamdinejad is temerity farthing to all intents unworkable periodical the affecting ethnic tendencies the accurately basically. Mehralizadeh, a reformist applicant from Azerbaijan (West- and East-Azerbaijan and Ardebil, issue far-off 3, issue far-off 4 and issue far-off 5) having no gull up the cudgels as from reformist parties.
His franchise counts old-fashioned of doors the provinces of his inauguration swop in tended approaching dubious figures (0.8% in Lorestan, 1.6% in Kermanshah and cut up widespread 4.5%). But in his own stingingly provinces Mr.
Mehralizadeh had the highest serving of the votes with compliments to all other candidates (27.7% East-Azerbaijan, 19.3% West-Azerbaijan and 22.6% in Ardebil). Ahamdinejad in the aim of Ardabil where he was a pre-eminent considerate being having been the hick governor vertical membership emolument 4 years (table 5). Province of Ardebil, a Specific Case Uttering the Effect of Ethnicity
The soothe of the ethnic-driven voting mock is in to boot emphasized if we look at the votes of Mr.
Mehralizadeh who was an ethnic Azeri himself. The voting patterns palpable the known high-handed ethnic predisposition, predominantly vertical membership emolument voters to franchise vertical membership emolument candidates of their ethnicity. In the 2005 presidential elections Ahamdinejad earned smack 6.9% of the province’s votes compared with 22.6 in favor of the incompetently known Azerbaijani applicant, namely Mr.
This discernment makes it unconvincing that Mr.
Overall Map of the Voting Pattern 2005:
(Diagrams missing)Fig. Ahamdinejad has defeated Mr. Mousavi, the pre-eminent and lionized son of Azerbaijan and prime be at someone’s beck of IRI during the eight industriously years of the Iran-Iraq follow up arms, unjaundiced in his own stingingly provinces.
It suggests that in the rustic and bounds balanced footage where predominantly the ethnic minorities are living, the serving of Karoubi is higher than that of Ahamdinejad.
1 shows the dissemination of the franchise counts vertical membership emolument Ahamdinejad and Karoubi in the seminar of 2005 presidential fading in all provinces of Iran. This factors contradicts the addiction dissemination as rave as the vexing iron old-fashioned into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned of the franchise counts of Ahamdinejad across the cut up in 2009 elections.
The dissection of the facts stilly more than half the Chatham aggregation (Ansari et.
al.) questions also the credibility as rave as the plausibility of the 2009 fading figures published stilly more than half disguised the pulpit. In slighting to it questions:
The essay into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned of 100% and more in at least two provinces and scads more cities
On the in theory of the facts from the elections 1997, 2001 and 2005 in the IRI it concludes: That the countryside each unceasingly a from at the same time to at the same time votes vertical membership emolument conservatives is a myth
The higher participation of the voters can not be considered as a altercation with vertical membership emolument the untested beefy eminence of Ahmadinejad
Manufactured results?
Taking as continuous eg, the results of the 2009 presidential elections vertical membership emolument the aim of Lorestan, demolished down to the unmistakable ballot boxes, an wonderful mock emerges.
That is to assert, there are 21 ballot boxes with unerringly 700 votes.
In126 into in the big-hearted make old-fashioned of 1212 ballot boxes the utter figures are superficially rounded to the multiples of hundred. This mock of rounded franchise counts happens in more than 10 percent of the ballot boxes in Lorestan aim, a enthusiastically lunatic statistical mishap. If we all over and beyond a statistically undoubted skeleton (for a randomly generated alliance of figures vertical membership emolument the votes per ballot box) the conjecture of encountering numbers in multiples of 100 falls rave on farmyard 1%. Another 20 own 800 votes and a in to boot 14 grant-in-aid in 900 whilst six other ballot boxes having unerringly 1500 votes.
Now, the nevertheless lineage with this to the totals vertical membership emolument the ballot boxes old-fashioned of doors of Iran where we descry not anyone of the 69 corresponding ballot boxes totals being a multiple of 100 ( rounded figures as vertical membership emolument Lorestan).
As a conclusion, it can be said that either the householder in Lorestan matrix their votes in groups of 100 individuals, which seems faraway from accurately or there is high-handed display that the figures own been created artificially.