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...most observers agree that election results are likely to be meddled with only to a certain extent. "If voter participation is really high, in other words, if the margin of votes between, say, Ahmadinejad and Mousavi is big, interference will not yield decisive results," says Mohammad-Ali Abtahi, a member of Karroubi's central campaign committee. There are 45,713 polling booths across Iran today, and the candidates - Ahmedinejad, Mousavi, Karroubi and former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezai - can post one observer at each of the polling booths. Once the votes are counted and recorded at the stations, under...
...Mohtashamipour has also claimed that the government moved polling booths to schools and mosques with strong Basij bases and that entire ballot boxes could disappear or their votes be canceled. One text message circulating during the week instructed Mousavi supporters to vote in schools rather than mosques. The following day, another widely distributed message read, "The SMS you received about voting in schools was circulated by the opposing camp. They want to nullify ballot boxes based in schools, the majority of which will now carry Mousavi's name. Please send...
...thousands of army conscripts had been given leave until Saturday - the day after the elections. To go on leave, conscripts must leave their birth certificates with their army garrisons, which in turn can be misused by others for voting. At a street rally last week, where a group of Mousavi supporters facing a smaller group of Ahmadinejad supporters were chanting, "If there is no cheating, Mousavi will be first," an army conscript said confidentially, "We were told this morning by our commander that we should vote for the current head of government. Ahmadinejad's name was not mentioned...
...before Iran went to the polls, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the leading reform candidate, agreed to talk to TIME magazine. The interview was held in a building that Mousavi, an architect and artist, designed himself, part of an art school and gallery complex in central Tehran. Mousavi - who is not overwhelmingly charismatic, but seems every bit the artist-intellectual - strolled into a bare conference room, with little security and only a few aides, dressed in a dark suit and blue-striped shirt. He seemed to understand the questions posed in English, but he answered in Farsi...
...Mousavi has a reputation for being soft-spoken, but that is an exaggeration. He is whisper-spoken. His answers to our questions were cautious, precise, although surprisingly candid at times. He was most emphatic when we asked about the way Mahmoud Ahmadinejad conducted his campaign, which included a direct attack on Mousavi's wife, the famous artist and activist Zahra Rahnavard. "I think he went beyond our societal norms, and that is why he created a current against himself," Mousavi said. "In our country, they don't insult a man's wife [to] his face. It is also not expected...