Thursday, February 25, 2016

Iran: protests against sham elections in various cities


Election Dogfights
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Khamenei’s proxies in Ramsar, at Caspian Sea, attacked Rafsanjani’s campaign center and knocked down banners.

Assault on the house of a candidate in Shabestar
According to the news received from Iran, home of Massoud Namazi, the candidate from Shabestar in Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran, was attacked at midnight of Tuesday, Feb. 23rd. The attackers, whose identity is not known yet, set fire on his car.

Iran - Widespread rip up of election posters by people
On Wednesday Feb. 24, many of the election banners in Tehran were set on fire. Streets of the capital were scenes of torn off posters and pictures of different candidates. This was how people showed their exasperation towards the Mullahs.
Similar scenes were also reported from the cities of Karaj, Qom, Kashan, Khoram Abad, Boroujerd, Kermanshah, and Oroomieh.

"Prisoners are forced to take part in "elections
An independent source reported on Wed. Feb. 24 that the head warden in Gorgan’s central prison, north of Iran, has threatened that prisoners’ temporarily leave would be cancelled unless they take part in the elections.

The Feb. 26th election is boycotted by a large number of Iranian people.

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