Iran Election Watchdog Stands By Results
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 23rd, 2009 4:43 am by HL
Iran Election Watchdog Stands By Results
Iran’s Guardian Council has found “no major fraud or breach in the election” and will not hold a re-vote, a spokesman announced Tuesday. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, meanwhile, jumped into the fray, calling on the Iranian government to “respect fundamental civil and political rights, especially the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of information.”
Read Ban’s full statement here.
BBC:
English-language Press TV reported the Guardian Council’s rejecting an annulment on Tuesday.
On Monday, it had conceded there had been voting irregularities in 50 districts, including local vote counts that exceeded the number of eligible voters.
However, it said they were not enough to affect the overall result and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had indeed won by a landslide.
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South Carolina governor and anti-stimulus crusader Mark Sanford has vanished. Sanford gave his staff and security team the slip four days ago and managed to miss Father’s Day without alarming his wife, who also doesn’t know where he is. “He was writing something and wanted some space to get away from the kids,” she explained to the Associated Press.
Daily News:
The State newspaper reported that neither the governor’s office nor SLED had been able to reach Sanford since he left the governor’s mansion in a black SLED SUV Thursday night.
The governor’s state and personal phones were turned off and he did not respond to phone or text messages, the State said.
Sanford’s office emailed NBC to say “it’s not uncommon for him to go out of pocket for a few days at a time to clear his head.” They said he had let his staff know he’d be difficult to reach.
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