AFP: Calling Iran’s presidential election a “sham,” Canada’s top diplomat urged Iranians Thursday to “make their voices heard” by casting protest ballots, boycotting the vote or using satire to express criticism.
Canada urges Iranians to make voices heard in election
Social media abuzz as Iran heads to poll
AFP: The social networking websites which helped mobilise anti-regime protests in 2009 are buzzing again — this time urging Iranians to be sure to vote on Friday when Iran elects a new president.
Hardliners still split as Iran election campaign ends
Reuters: Campaigning in Iran’s presidential election ended on Thursday, a day before the vote in which the sole moderate candidate has an outside chance of stealing victory from his hardline rivals.
Azerbaijan to try 29 over Eurovision plot
AFP: The ministry said at the time that the group had links with neighbouring Iran and was planning attacks on the concert hall where Eurovision was held, police buildings, hotels used by foreigners, mosques and other religious sites in the Caucasus state.
Economy not for donkeys as crisis tops Iran voter concerns
Bloomberg: Decades after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini dismissed it as an asinine matter following the Islamic Revolution in 1979, fixing the worst economy in about 20 years tops the list of issues voters in tomorrow’s election say they care about, according to the Iranian Students Polling Agency.
Iran votes Friday on a president, but the ballot is quite limited
Washington Post: Iran’s last presidential election four years ago offered hope of real change in its theocratic regime, through the reformist Green movement. But if the race to elect a replacement to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alters anything, it may be for the worse — at least from the West’s point of view.
Google warns of password-stealing campaign in Iran
AFP: Google on Wednesday said that it has been battling what appeared to be politically targeted efforts to steal the passwords of tens of thousands of account holders in Iran.
The opposition on the eve of Iranian elections
UPI: This week’s tightly controlled presidential election in Iran marks an opportunity for U.S. officials to make an evidence-based assessment of the Tehran regime and its most worrisome opposition.
Iran bazaar and clergy influence wanes after 1979
AFP: Iran’s powerful bazaar merchants and Shiite clergy spearheaded the 1979 Islamic revolution, but their role on the country’s political scene has waned with developments in society and the advent of new technology, analysts say.
Israeli PM warns of another Holocaust from Iran
AP: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his two-day visit to Poland, which Germany’s Nazis occupied during World War II and where they committed the worst crimes ever against the Jewish people, with a stern warning about a potential Holocaust from Iran.
