Transcript:
Mr. Jannati, the secretary general of the Guardian Council, and the overlord of this election has gone up on the pulpit at the Friday prayer and has actively expressed his support to Mr. Ahmadinejad. And he has complimented and commended him.
Mr. Mohammad Yazdi, one of the influential members of the Guardian Council, has openly expressed his support for Ahmadinejad and has spoken out against the other candidates.
Mr. Elham has given a speech where he too has offered his support. And then there were other members of the Guardian Council; at least seven members of the Guardian Council have come out in support of Ahmadinejad. Effectively these people are all lacking legitimacy as observers. And the elections and an election without observers is null and void.
If there aren’t impartial observers from the Guardian Council present at a polling station, they cannot hold elections there. And when there are no impartial observers, the election is null and void.
And now, as it were, the continuation of this observation. Given the fact that the Guardian Council has not been able to prove it’s impartiality, and the blanket support for one candidate, from a number of the members of the Guardian Council has in fact been proven, the Guardian Council cannot therefore either confirm or reject the results of the 10th presidential elections. (he then repeats the same point here again...for a few sentences and it literally is harping on the same point...)
Then there is a video footage of Khamenei who says:
The structure of our of presidential elections under the law, does not allow for any fraud. Those who are involved and know about the electoral process in this country can vouch for it; let alone up to an 11 million difference. If the difference between two ballots was a hundred thousand, five hundred thousand or one million votes...and then one can say they’ve cheated, they’ve shifted things around but how can one cheat on 11 million votes?
Back to Mohtashamipour:
And so our suggestion during this meeting was as follows: that we should form a fact-finding committee in order to find a way out of this problem and quagmire. And this fact-finding committee would look into fifteen or sixteen issues that we mentioned, one of which is the impartiality of the Guardian Council which requires investigating. And if this fact-finding committee looks into this one matter of the issues where the members of the Guardian Council have in fact acted fraudulently, supporting one candidate, opposing other candidates, then that in and of itself is enough to null and void the elections. And at that point, it will be proof for us.
The fact-finding committee which should be comprised of the representatives of the sources of envoys from Qom, will each have one representative; then four representatives representing each presidential candidate, one representative from the Guardian Council, with the proviso that this individual who is picked has never uttered a word against any of the other candidates and his impartiality has been proven. Then one person from the Ministry of the Interior who meets this very same condition; and then a renowned legal scholar, a professor at the university who has been put forth by the ‘bar association’. Then, the head of the judiciary, as well as the head of the investigative body of the country and finally, the attorney general of the country. This coalition can be the fact-finding committee that can investigate the evident issues of fraud committed and reasons for annulment of the 10th presidential elections. And then their findings should be reported to the people and the supreme leadership. And it is this fact-finding commission which will once again interest people in the process of the elections and then people can, with the viewpoint and suggestion of this committee, plan for future elections.
This was our operational recommendation to yesterday’s Guardian Council meeting (Tuesday, 27th of Khordaad, 1388) which is meant to be looked into at the public meetings of the Guardian Council and their opinions will be communicated to us.
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