Tehran: Top Iranian reformist Mohammad Ali Abtahi told a Tehran court on Saturday there had been no fraud in
the June election which returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power,
the Fars news agency reported.
"The 10th (presidential) election was different and it
took two or three years to work on it. I think reformists took
action to sort of restrict the (supreme) leader," Abtahi told
a revolutionary court where around 100 people accused of
rioting after the election were on trial.
"I say to all my friends and all friends who hear us,
that the issue of fraud in Iran was a lie and was brought up
to create riots so Iran becomes like Afghanistan and Iraq and
suffers damage and hardship... and if this happened, there
would no name and trace of the revolution left."
Bureau Report
First Published: Saturday, August 01, 2009, 17:09