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Local Iranians to protest Iran election results
By: Kalee Bumguardner
Issue date: 6/16/09 Section: News
Many Iranians in the Bryan-College Station community are hosting a rally against Iranian fraudulent election from 11:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. Tuesday in front of the Memorial Student Center. They are protesting Iran's election results and the use of force and violence to silence the people inside Iran and to establish an illegitimate government, an e-mail from a representative of Iranian students at A&M said. The e-mail urges people to come support Iranians inside Iran and North America, and to let the world know that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not their president. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for an investigation into vote-rigging allegations that led to violent riots in support of reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Sunday night, police and militia stormed the campus at the Tehran university, ransacking dormitories and arresting dozens of students angry over what they claim was election fraud. Monday, hundreds of thousands of Mousavi's supporters marched in central Tehran, denouncing Ahmadinejad's election. Pro-government militia opened fire on the mob, killing one and wounding several others. In his first public comment on the Iranian election, President Barack Obama said he was "deeply troubled by the violence I've been seeing on TV."
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