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Three hours into voting, polling stations are deserted |
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Friday, 24 June 2005 |
 Iran – election – statement no. 3 - Reports by the Iranian
Resistance’s observers from Tehran and other cities indicate that
polling stations have been deserted by voters.
In Tehran, in Imam Ali mosque in Pirouzi Street, Soudmand high school,
Kowthar mosque in and Ostad Shahriar school in Ghanat Kowthar Streets,
Al-Aqsa mosque in Tehran-pars, ninth district municipality in
Tehran-pars fourth square, Rasoul mosque in Majidieh street, Sharif
University of Technology in Tehran in Azadi Street, Shayesteh school in
Lashgar junction were deserted.
In Borazjan, Kangavar, Kaboutar Ahang, Sar-pol-zahab, Paveh, Zanjan,
Ahwaz, Boroujerd, Qom, Isfahan, Oshnavieh, Jame-Shahr, Tonekabon and
Qazvin few people have turned out to cast their ballots.
In Bandar Abbas only the State Security Forces and pro-regime
motorcycle-rider could be seen and plainclothes officers are engaged in
controlling the polling stations undercover.
In Oshnavieh, hardly anyone has voted. Pro-regime elements who cast their ballots fear public rage.
Reports from mosques indicated that by noon people had stayed home. The
regime’s operatives have contacted welfare recipients to threaten them
that if they did not vote, their monthly handouts would be cut off.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 24, 2005
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