Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jun. 17 – Exclusive Iran Focus coverage of voting in todays presidential polls in Iran. Many voting stations had low turnouts and in some cases were empty. Voting started at 8 a.m. Tehran time. The following film is from the vicinity of a voting station in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. One of the scenes shows the words “Boycott the elections” graffitied on the wall. Please click the following link for video footage.
Exclusive Iran Focus election coverage Video 1
Exclusive Iran Focus election coverage Video 1
Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jun. 17 – Exclusive Iran Focus coverage of voting in todays presidential polls in Iran. Many voting stations had low turnouts and in some cases were empty. Voting started at 8 a.m. Tehran time. The following film is from the vicinity of a voting station in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. One of the scenes shows the words “Boycott the elections” graffitied on the wall. Please click the following link for video footage.
Iran election: Report from the scene – 1
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 17- In the opening hours of Irans presidential elections many voting booths are reported to have low turnouts and in some cases were empty. Tehrans voting stations in Ashrafi-Isfahani Falak Dovom Sadeqiyeh, Payambar, and Shahrak Jandarmeri roads and in the vicinity of Marzdaran Boulevard were all reported to be empty of voters, yet with heavy police presence, according to eye-witnesses reporting at 09:20 Tehran time.
Iran election: Report from the scene – 1
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 17- In the opening hours of Irans presidential elections many voting booths are reported to have low turnouts and in some cases were empty. Tehrans voting stations in Ashrafi-Isfahani Falak Dovom Sadeqiyeh, Payambar, and Shahrak Jandarmeri roads and in the vicinity of Marzdaran Boulevard were all reported to be empty of voters, yet with heavy police presence, according to eye-witnesses reporting at 09:20 Tehran time.
Iran rejects EU demand to disavow enrichment
AFP: Iran on Thursday dismissed demands by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac that it should renounce uranium enrichment. “We will not renounce our right,” said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, quoted by official media.
Iranian reporting contradictions not due to error – US
AFP: Contradictions in Iran’s reporting to the UN atomic agency on its nuclear program are too “pervasive” to be due to “inadvertent error,” US ambassador Jackie Sanders said Thursday. “These continuing contradictions between Iran’s declarations and the facts as they are uncovered cannot be explained by inadvertent error. They are simply too numerous and pervasive,” Sanders told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency that had just heard on IAEA report on Iran.
Rafsanjanis publicity stunt turns into a flop
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 A publicity film produced for frontrunner candidate Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani by one of Irans most successful directors has backfired after being shown on national television, according to informal opinion polls taken in dozens of cities across the country.
Rafsanjanis publicity stunt turns into a flop
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 A publicity film produced for frontrunner candidate Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani by one of Irans most successful directors has backfired after being shown on national television, according to informal opinion polls taken in dozens of cities across the country.
Not Our Man in Iran
New York Times: If the polls and pundits can be believed, Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani will move a step closer to regaining the presidency of Iran in tomorrow’s national elections.
And while the Iranian people will view the results with a mixture of resignation and boredom (turnout is unlikely to top 30 percent), Mr. Rafsanjani’s rehabilitation will be welcomed in Paris, London, Berlin and, most unfortunately, Washington.
Iran election round-up
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16
Poll: Election will result in run-off
Computer poll sees Rafsanjani-Moin in run-off
Iraqi President denies backing Rafsanjani
Vote with any form of ID okayed
Higher turnout will give President more bargaining power
Larijani: pointless to quit now
20,000 paramilitary policemen to guard Tehran polling booths
