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Resistance’s observers: Mullahs’ election sham meets “nationwide boycott” |
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Friday, 17 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 4
Reports by the Resistance’s observers until 2:00 pm, local time, from
33 cities across Iran indicated that people have decisively boycotted
the mullahs’ sham elections.
The reports, based on eyewitness accounts by the Resistance’s observers
from Tehran, Khash, Babol, Mashad, Isfahan, Tabriz, Hamedan, Yassouj,
Shiraz, Qazvin, Damavand, Karaj, Ilam, Kamyaran and dozens of other
cities indicate that polling booths were deserted and mostly empty.
In Tehran, polling stations 230 in Zafar and Mirdamad in Mirdamad
streets, Aghdassieh mosque, in Hazrat Abdolazim shrine in Shahr-e Ray,
Javad mosque, a mobile polling station in Vali-e Asr Square, Imam
mosque in Imam Hossein Square, Ghavami mosque in Pirouzi Street, in
Gharb Township in Iran Zamin Square, were reported empty.
The situation was the same in Behbahan, Qom, Ahwaz, Damavand, Karaj, Ghaemshahr and Kerman.
In Lamard in Fars province, an election observer reported that polling
stations were deserted until noon. In Isfahan, the regime has shut down
internet cafes to prevent the spread of the news of the boycott.
Foreign news agencies have interviewed many students who said
authorities had warned them that if their birth certificates did not
carry the election stamp, they would not be allowed to take part in
university entrance exams.
Despite extensive propaganda about a heavy turnout, the State-run
television has refrained from broadcasting reports from the polling
stations and aired reports from only 19 cities and interviewed a few
people in only six cities.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 17, 2005
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