Iran Focus: Washington, DC, Jun. 16 – In a strongly-worded statement that is likely to have repercussions beyond tomorrow’s presidential election in Iran, United States President George W. Bush denounced the poll as undemocratic. “Today, Iran is ruled by men who suppress liberty at home and spread terror across the world.

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 16 – Some 300 Iranians demonstrated outside Mellat Park in Tehran this morning chanting anti-government slogans and urging people to boycott tomorrow’s presidential elections. “Guns, Tanks, and Bassijis are no longer affective”, the group shouted as security forces attempted to prevent passers-by from joining ranks.

Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 16 – An array of prominent jurists and human rights advocates in France joined 100,000 French citizens to call on their government to cease pressures on an Iranian opposition coalition, two years after a spectacular police raid on the offices of the National Council of Resistance of Iran north of Paris.

The Wall Stree Journal – By AYATOLLAH MEHDI HAERI KHORSHIDI: Muslims must understand that participation in Friday’s presidential election in Iran is haram, that is, it is unclean according to religious principles and reasonable logic. Therefore it is forbidden to participate. Whoever would participate in this process would be a full partner in the destruction of Iran by the current regime, a partner in its criminal behavior in the past, in the present and in the future.

Iran Focus: Geneva, Jun. 16 – An international rights group led by the former First Lady of France held a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday to denounce what it called “a conspiracy
by the Iranian regime” to prevent victims of its human rights abuses from presenting their cases to the United Nations.