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Another miracle from Fars rejime! Ahmadinejad ‘leads Iran poll count’

BayBak, Azerbaijan | 1442 days ago | Saturday, 13th June , 2009 , 03:51 [am] | Azerbaijan

. According to Kamran Daneshjoo, chairman of the electoral commission at the interior ministry. Ahmadinejad had received 15,913,256 votes compared to 4,628,912 for Mousavi.

The two other candidates up for election, Mohsen Rezai, a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and Mehdi Karroubi, an ex-parliament speaker – came a distant third and fourth with 470,549 votes and 212,855 votes respectively.

According to Aljazeera, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s incumbent president, has taken a commanding lead in his bid for re-election with more than two-thirds of ballot boxes counted, Iran’s interior ministry has said.

Ahmadinejad is currently ahead with 65.2 per cent of the 28 million ballots counted against 31 per cent for Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main rival.

But Mousavi had claimed victory at a news conference in Tehran just moments after polls closed on Friday.

“In line with the information we have received, I am the winner of this election by a substantial margin,” he said. “We expect to celebrate with people soon.”

Soon afterwards, IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, announced that Ahmadinejad had won re-election.

“Doctor Ahmadinejad, by getting a majority of the votes, has become the definite winner of the 10th presidential election,” the news agency said.

Latest results

According to Kamran Daneshjoo, chairman of the electoral commission at the interior ministry. Ahmadinejad had received 15,913,256 votes compared to 4,628,912 for Mousavi.

The two other candidates up for election, Mohsen Rezai, a former commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and Mehdi Karroubi, an ex-parliament speaker – came a distant third and fourth with 470,549 votes and 212,855 votes respectively.

Daneshjoo did not indicate where the votes were coming from, saying only that the counting was from polling places across the country.

“Both sides are trying to outplay each other, trying to out manoeuvre each other in the media game,” Alireza Ronaghi, Al Jazeera’s Tehran correspondent, said.

“The speculative frenzy is building up,” Teymoor Nabili, Al Jazeera’s correspondent, reporting from Tehran, said.

Nabili also said that journalists following the elections have expressed a little bit of surprise in the last hour by the speed and conviction of vote counting.

“It does seem remarkably quick,” Nabili said. “But the explanation they are giving is that the counting has been going on throughout the day. They kept a running tally.”

Latest reports show that 80 per cent of Iran’s electorate voted in Friday’s elections.

Ballot irregularities

Mousavi had also alleged there had been irregularities in the voting, including a shortage of ballot papers.

Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, told Al Jazeera: “There has been fraud alleged by the losing candidates in other Iranian elections and there has been good evidence produced that [it] actually happened.

“So one can’t rule it out in this case. What is more important in the early stages is people’s perceptions. If people perceive they were robbed that will stir up political passion in what is still a volatile country.”

Official results are expected at 0330 GMT, IRNA said.

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