Alef website report - Iran’s Ministry of Interior evaded 12 questions regarding the 2009 [Iran] presidential election
Following numerous rumors and uncertainties regarding the validity of the election during the past seven months, particularly the weeks after the election, Alef website formulated 25 key questions posed by protesters and internet viewers regarding the election results. The Ministry of Interior was asked to respond to the inquiries through one of their election officials who would act as a “special online guest”on Alef’s website.
The public relations and the Ministry of Interior officials, after three months of consecutive requests by Alef, acknowledged the 25 questions, but decided that it was not advisable for them to accept an invitation as an online guest. They stated that Alef is not allowed to publish or attribute any responses to the Ministry of Interior.
On January 4, 2010, after numerous requests by online viewers, Alef published an invitation to all its internet viewers asking them to present their questions regarding the 2009 election. Within three weeks, with support from online viewers, legal experts, and a spokesperson from the Guardian Council, the online questions were compiled.
Since the purpose of this invitation was to remove doubts and ambiguities and answer the real questions of compatriots in a fair and reasonable manner, efforts were made when selecting the questions to ensure that there would be no political or criminal considerations and to refrain from presenting questions that were not logical or reasonable or could be interpreted as slanderous or insulting. Of the 70 questions posed, 12 were directly related to the officials at the Ministry of Interior. From January 10, 2010, questions were presented to the Ministry of Interior that requested a response. However, after consecutive but unsuccessful attempts to obtain a response, Alef came to the conclusion that the Ministry of Interior had no intention of responding to the questions.
The questions are as follows:
1) Can you please explain how it is possible that in some provinces (such as Lorestan) in many of the ballot boxes (for example more than 10% of the total ballot boxes of this province) the total number of votes was a multiple of 100 (100, 200, 300 etc.)?
2) Why were some political activists (particularly the heads of Mousavi’s campaign) arrested hours and days after the election, even though the protests had only just begun?
3) In the 12 stages of vote announcements, we only heard of invalid votes pertaining to the last two stages. However, based on the films and evidence shown both on this website and others, the derived vote counts for the previous 10 stages had already been announced, and one cannot say that these vote counts were accurate. Please clarify why the invalid votes were not announced from the beginning?
4) Why was it announced that the vote counting software was written by people outside the Ministry of Interior when the Ministry of Interior had the capability of writing such software?
5) In a number of mosques that also serve as Basiji bases, people were told to vote for specific candidates, or told that certain candidates were hypocrites and against the Velayat -e Faqigh. Is this type of propaganda not against Imam Khomeini’s teachings? Did he not say to the military forces to not enter political parties? Is this not a political act?
6) The statistics published later contained many problems and uncertainties. Take the number of invalid votes in one of the ballot boxes in Lorestan as an example. How do you explain this?
7) Why did the Ministry of Interior announce on election day that it was not necessary to enter the national code for the voters in the system? Is there a possibility that birth certificates and ID stamps were erased?
8) Why won’t the Ministry of Interior publish the 40 thousand #22 forms (report on ballot vote counts) that they claim were reviewed and signed by Mousavi’s representatives? Why do they not allow it to be posted on their website in order to create more transparency for those who have contested the vote count and distinguish between those who protest the vote count and those who want to create disturbances?
9) The numbers assigned to the candidates at the voting centers were alphabetical 1) Ahmadinejad 2) Rezaee 3) Karoubi 4) Mousavi, but the codes associated with each candidate were 44: Ahmadinejad, 55: Rezaee
66:Karoubi 77: Mousavi. These codes, unlike the numbers assigned to each candidate that were logical and correct, make no logical sense. If the goal was to use two-digit numbers, then the logical and correct assignment of codes that would not lead to any mistakes or confusion would have been: 11: Ahmadinejad, 22: Rezaee, 33: Karoubi, 44: Mousavi. We await your logical response to this matter.
10) Were permits issued for the supporters of Mr. Ahmadinejad who gathered at Vali Asr Square on June 14, 2009, an event that was advertised by the government and broadcast live on television? Given that requests for permits need to be sent in one week in advance, when and by whom was this request presented to the Ministry of Interior?
11) How do you explain the letter by the governor of Firooz Abad, to the governor’s office requesting to be paid for the expenses associated with sending crowds to cheer Mr. Ahmadinejad on his trip to Shiraz in spring 2009? (Here is a link that proves that Alef posted the letter at that time. http://alef.ir/1388/content/view/49268/) What has been the response of the governor’s office and the Ministry of Interior to this letter? With 20 days left to the election, were the expenses associated with the greeters for a future presidential candidate paid by the treasury? My thanks to Alef website for publishing my question and for seeking to find answers, proving that these questions are real and not just for show.
12) Why were Mr. Rezaee’s votes reduced from 630 thousand in the morning to 580 thousand in the afternoon? Here is a link proving this point. http://www.rezaee.ir/fa/pages/?cid=8521
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