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Sham elections turn into another debacle
SMCCDI (Information Service)
Dec 15, 2006, 18:51
http://daneshjoo.org/publishers/currentnews/article_9001.shtml
Two major sham elections, planned simultaneously by the Islamic republic regime, turned into another major debacle, as millions of Iranians stayed home or far from ballot boxes. The Islamist leadership had hoped that some Iranians would fall into the usual good-bad cop game by going to the polls to show support of the hardliners or of the Islamist 'reformers', which in both cases would have been a sign of legitimacy for their corrupt regime.
The Islamic Ministry of Interior had declared that 46.5 million Iranians were eligible to vote and that he was expecting a massive show of popular solidarity with the holly regime.
All calls made by the regime's officials, including the supreme leader, or by those qualified naively, by some simple minds, as 'reformists', were ignored to the point that the number of declared ballot boxes were reduced, and the polling time had to be extended in order to show better scenes to some of the foreign reporters covering the issue.
Thousands of Islamist militiamen, Islamist foreigners residing in Iran, forced governmental employees and even prisoners were mobilized, days before, in order to try to reduce the impact of what was already known as going to be a shameful result.
The Iranians showed once again the total rejection of the regime and their distrust of anyone having, at certain time, mixed with the rejected theocracy.
Italian translation
Le false elezioni iraniane boicottate dalla maggioranza della popolazione
Due false tornate elettorali, organizzate simultaneamente dal regime islamico, sono risultate in un'ennesima figuraccia per il regime, poichè milioni di iraniani sono rimasti a casa o lontano dai seggi. Il regime sperava che alcuni iraniani cascassero nella logica del "tanto meglio, tanto peggio" ed andassero alle urne per scegliere tra "conservatori" e islamisti "riformisti", che in entrambi i casi avrebbe significato legittimare il regime.
Il ministero degli interni islamico aveva detto che gli aventi diritto al voto erano 46 milioni e mezzo e che si aspettava che un enorme numero di iraniani partecipasse.
Gli iraniani hanno ignorato gli appelli al voto lanciati dai rappresentanti del regime, quali il leader supremo e quelli che alcuni stupidi ancora considerano come "riformisti". Il boicottaggio è stato tale che numerose urne sono state ritirate e l'orario della chiusura dei seggi ritardato per dare un'impressione diversa ai giornalisti stranieri presenti.
Migliaia di miliziani ed islamisti stranieri residenti in Iran hanno costretto gli impiegati statali ed anche i prigionieri comuni ad andare a votare, di modo da ridurre l'impatto di questa ennesima debacle.
Gli iraniani hanno mostrato ancora una volta il loro rifiuto totale della teocrazia e di chiunque si faccia passare per riformista all'interno del regime stesso.

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