2009 Iranian presidential election protests

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2009 Iranian presidential election protests
Resulted inProtests quelled
Parties
Lead figures
Casualties and losses
36 killed (Iranian Government figure)[32]
72 killed (Opposition figure)[33][34][35]
4,000 arrests[citation needed]

After incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory in the 2009 Iranian presidential election, protests broke out in major cities across Iran in support of opposition candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.[36] The protests continued until 2010, and were titled the Iranian Green Movement (Persian: جنبش سبز Jonbesh-e Sabz) by their proponents, reflecting Mousavi's campaign theme, and Persian Awakening, Persian Spring or Green Revolution.[37][38][39]

Protests began on the night of 12 June 2009, following the announcement that incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won nearly 63 percent of the vote, despite several reported irregularities. However, all three opposition candidates claimed the votes were manipulated and the election was rigged, with Rezaee and Mousavi lodging official complaints. Mousavi announced he "won't surrender to this manipulation", before lodging an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June.[38] Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered an investigation into the claims of electoral fraud and irregularities, as requested by Green Movement leaders.[40][41][42] Ahmadinejad called the election "completely free" and the outcome a "great victory" for Iran, dismissing the protests as akin to little more than "passions after a soccer match".[43]

Due to the sporadic cases of violence present at the protests, the government had the police and paramilitary

heart attack or meningitis.[49][50] Iranian authorities closed universities in Tehran, blocked websites, cut off mobile signals[51] and banned rallies.[41]

The creation of the Iranian Green Movement developed during these protests. It was also termed the "Twitter Revolution", due to protesters' reliance on Twitter and other social media to communicate.[52]

Background

Prior to 2005

Main article: History of the Islamic Republic of Iran
See also:
Iranian reform movement

Since 1980 following the

Revolutionary Guards is under the control of the Supreme Leader. The Revolutionary Guards is a constitutionally protected paramilitary force that operates alongside the regular Armed forces, whose primary function is to protect the Islamic Republic. The Revolutionary Guards also have an auxiliary wing called the Basij, who provide support in enforcing religious laws and suppressing dissidents.[53][54] They are not considered full members of the Revolutionary Guards, and lack the training given to full-time members, although they can be called up at any time to assist the regular forces in times of trouble. Though Ayatollah Khomeini and his successor Ayatollah Khamenei, claimed that this system was democratic and the Revolutionary guards are necessitated to protect the government from military coups and foreign interference, critics contend that this system only serves to keep like-minded conservatives in power and marginalize any opposition, while using the Revolutionary guards to silence any dissidents.[55][56][57][58][59]

The Islamic Republic has not escaped popular opposition in the past. During the 1980s, the

Hafte Tir bombing, Ayatollah Khomeini declared the Mojahedin and anyone opposed to the Islamic republic, "enemies of god" and pursued a mass campaign of torture, rape, and execution against members of the Mojahedin, Fadaiyan, and Tudeh parties as well as their families, close friends, and even anyone who was accused of insufficient Islamic behavior, resulting in the deaths of thousands of Iranians who were usually tried in secret kangaroo courts run by hard line clerics.[63] Following Operation Mersad in 1988, Khomeini ordered all prisons to execute those still in captivity, resulting in an estimated 3,000[64] to 30,000[65]
dead. Since then, no organized opposition has surfaced in Iran and following this experience, the Iranian Government usually employs heavy handed tactics to marginalize any attempt at regime removal and usually justifies this with the "enemy of god" classification.

In 1997, following the unexpected victory of a before-little-known reformist cleric

student protests, after which hardliners such as Mohammad Ali Jafari, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, and Qasem Soleimani were promoted to take control of the Revolutionary Guards and the Security Services to crack down on most reformist movements. Despite reformists gaining a majority in the Majlis in 2000 and Khatami winning the 2001 election as well, Khamenei would oppose any attempts at liberalization of the government or society.[67] Most Iranians and observers in general have regarded the reform movement to have been a failure with Saeed Hajjarian, the main theorist behind the movement, declaring in 2003 that "the reform movement is dead. Long live the reform movement".[68]

Ahmadinejad's first term

Main article:
Government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005–13)

In 2005,

Iranian Rial from a low of 8,000 to the dollar in 2005 to 10,000 to the dollar in 2009.[69]

Iran has been experiencing high birth rates since 1988, both due to an increase in standard of living and government encouragement of large families, with an estimated 60 percent of the country being under the age of 30.

Ministry of Petroleum awarded IRGC billions of dollars in contracts as well as major infrastructure projects.[74]
Most government-issued contracts were awarded to these companies, and private enterprise in Iran has been struggling heavily against these groups.

The election

The election of the president of Iran in 2009 was preceded by many Iranian surveys and a survey by the US-based Terror Free Tomorrow organization.[75] The Terror Free Tomorrow opinion poll, conducted from 11 to 20 May 2009, predicted the high participation and showed similar ratios for the candidates to the later official result, with over a quarter yet undecided.[76][77] The many Iranian surveys show a wide range of differing results. An opinion in the New York Times claims that this is due to the high fluctuation among voters during the campaign season.[78]

The election for presidency took place on 12 June 2009. Unlike the

controversial, but this time it escalated. Candidates Mohsen Rezaee and Mousavi have lodged official complaints. Mousavi announced that he "won't surrender to this manipulation" before lodging an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June.[38]

According to an analysis by Professor Walter R. Mebane Jr. from the Department of Statistics of the University of Michigan, considering data from the first stage of the 2005 presidential election produces results that "give moderately strong support for a diagnosis that the 2009 election was affected by significant fraud".[79] The UK-based think-tank Chatham House also suspected fraud in the voting process for a number of reasons:[80]

Reason Description
More than 100% In two Conservative provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, a turnout of more than 100% was recorded.[80]
No swing At a provincial level, there is no correlation between the increased turnout, and the swing to Ahmadinejad.[80] This challenges the notion that his victory was due to the massive participation of a previously silent Conservative majority.[80]
Reformist votes In a third of all provinces, the official results would require that Ahmadinejad took not only all former conservative voters, and all former centrist voters, and all new voters, but also took up to 44% of former Reformist voters, despite a decade of conflict between these two groups.[80]
Rural votes In 2005, as in 2001 and 1997, conservative candidates, and Ahmadinejad in particular, were markedly unpopular in rural areas. The claim that this year Ahmadinejad swept the board in more rural provinces in 2009 flies in the face of these trends.[80]

Timeline

Main articles:
Results of the Iranian presidential election, 2009

On Saturday 13 June after election results announced that Ahmadinejad had won, supporters of Mousavi took to the streets to protest. The next day, protests grew, as did violence. On the night of 14 June the pro-Ahmadinejad Basij paramilitary group raided Tehran University, injuring many. On 15 June millions of protesters marched on Azadi street and Mousavi made his first post-election appearance.

Protesters mobilising in Tehran before mass protests on 13 June
A bus burns on the streets of downtown Tehran as protesters cycle by on 13 June

On 16 June, protests continued, and the

Iranian national football team wore green wristbands in support of Mousavi during their game against South Korea. On Thursday, 18 June more than 100,000 protesters held a candlelight vigil in Tehran following Mousavi's call for a day of mourning for those killed in protests. The Guardian Council invited the three major challengers to meet to discuss their grievances. Several protesters supporting Moussavi swapped their green clothes for black attires in honor of protesters who died, according to CNN.[81]

On Friday, 19 June, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke during religious services, saying the election was legitimate and called the large voter turnout and resulting victory (for Ahmadinejad) a "divine assessment" and that protests would no longer be tolerated. However, the opposition did not accept this and the protests occurred, albeit on a smaller scale. The next day, 20 June, fewer protesters took to streets. At the protests that did occur, said to number in the tens of thousands of people, much violence occurred, causing many would-be protesters to stay in their homes the next day, Sunday, 21 June. On 20 June, a young Iranian woman, identified as

Neda Agha-Soltan,[82] was shot and died in front of cameras on Kargar Avenue in Tehran.[83] Highly graphic amateur videos of the killing rapidly spread viral across the Internet after being posted to Facebook and YouTube.[84]
On 22 June, riot police broke up the main rally in Tehran with tear gas and live fire into the air.

During Friday, 26 June, prayers were broadcast live on television, and

Ahmad Khatami is reported to have said that "Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction" and called for the execution of leading demonstrators as they are "people who wage war against God".[85]

On Monday, 29 June, the Guardian Council certified the results of the controversial election.[86] This set off a wave of protests, disregarding the Iranian government's ban on street marches.[86] The Iranian intelligence chief alleged that western and "Zionist" forces were responsible for inciting the protests. Four of the nine British officials arrested on 28 June 2009 remain in custody under those charges.[86] According to Aljazeera, the arrest of the British officials was described by the Britain as harassment and intimidation, as well as urging their release.[87]

Late July, protest had reportedly entered a "Phase II", using tactics such as the boycott of goods advertised on state-controlled television; attempting to deny power to state-run TV evening news broadcasts by turning on all electric appliances just before the news; "blitz" street demonstrations "lasting just long enough to chant 'Death to the dictator!' several times", but not long enough for security forces to arrive; identifying paramilitary

Mohandas Gandhi that "even the most powerful cannot rule without the cooperation of the ruled."[88] Iranian authorities, in an attempt to stop Moussavi's supporters from hosting a news conference, sealed off his campaign headquarters, according to the BBC.[89]

On 5 August, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in for his second term as President of Iran in an official inauguration in Tehran. Protests were held outside the Parliament during the inauguration, with protesters chanting "death to the dictator".[90]

Major protests would continue after the inauguration as well. Among the largest were protests that were held on Iranian holidays, such as

Iranian Students Day on 7 December.[91][92] According to The Guardian, it was projected that more than 500,000 people participated in the 2009 presidential election protest.[93] According to the Associated Press, it is speculated that the protests may be connected to the country's economy and corruption.[94]

Another wave of protests
occurred following these election protests across Iran in 2011.

Government reaction

Arrests

See also:
Law enforcement in Iran, Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and 2009 Iran poll protests trial

On the weekend of 13/14 June, in a series of raids across

IRNA said were involved in orchestrating protests on 13 June.[97] Unidentified sources said that the police stormed the headquarters of the IIPF and arrested a number of people.[40][99] Iranian journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin claimed that presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi was put under house arrest, although officials denied this.[100] An estimated 200 people were detained after clashes with students at the University of Tehran, although many were later released.[101]

Former vice-president Mohammad-Ali Abtahi was among those arrested on 16 June, according to Reuters.[102]

Acting Police Chief

Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehei linked some arrests to terrorism supported from outside Iran, stating that "more than 20 explosive consignments were discovered".[105] Others, he said, were "counter-revolutionary groups [who had] penetrated election headquarters" of the election candidates.[105]

Relatives of several detained protesters have confirmed that the interrogation of prisoners is now being headed by Saeed Mortazavi, a figure already known for alleged involvement in brutal interrogations and torture.[106]

Mojtaba Khamenei, the second son of Ayatollah Khamenei, has emerged as one of the driving forces behind the government's crackdown, diplomats and observers said. He is reported to have a strong influence over his father and is talked about as his possible successor. Mojtaba is affiliated with former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[107]

On 16 June, Reuters reported that former vice-president Mohammad-Ali Abtahi and former presidential advisor Saeed Hajjarian had been arrested.[102] Human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, who had been demanding a recount of all votes, was also arrested on that Tuesday according to Shirin Ebadi, who said that security officials had posed as clients.[108] Over 100 students were arrested after security forces fired tear gas at protesters at Shiraz University on the same day.[101] Reporters Without Borders reported that 5 of 11 arrested journalists were still in detention as of 16 June, and that a further 10 journalists were unaccounted for and may have been arrested.[101]

On 17 June, former foreign minister and Secretary-General of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Ebrahim Yazdi, was arrested while undergoing tests at the Tehran hospital.[101] In Tabriz, other Freedom Movement activists and eight members of the IIPF were arrested, with reports of at least 100 civic figures' arrests.[101] The total number of arrests across Iran since the election was reported as 500.[101]

Aaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the international campaign for human rights in Iran, stated that "Iranian intelligence and security forces are using the public protests to engage in what appears to be a major purge of reform-oriented individuals whose situations in detention could be life-threatening".[101]

In

Esfahan Province, prosecutor-general Mohammadreza Habibi warned that dissidents could face the death penalty under Islamic law.[109] He also accused the protesters of being a "few elements controlled by foreigners [who were] disrupting security by inciting individuals to destroy and to commit arson" and urged them to stop their "criminal activities". It was not clear if his warning applied only to Isfahan or to the country as a whole.[110]

On 20 June, Committee to Protect Journalists reported that LIFE Magazine photographer Amir Sadeghi was arrested by Iranian authorities.[111] According to a CPJ report, he was released from Evin Prison on 28 June.[112]

On 21 June, Iranian officials detained Iranian-born, Canadian citizen, and Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari.[113] He was later forced to confess in a series of trials for the detained protesters.

On 22 June, The Guardian's live blog reported that at approximately 1:30 pm, General Ali Fazli, the newly appointed commander of the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran province, had been arrested for refusing to carry Khamenei's order to use force against demonstrators.[114]

On 11 August 2009, the Iranian government confirmed that 4,000 were detained in the protests[115]

Militia violence

Riot police blocking a street in Tehran

Basij members were filmed firing into crowds and breaking into houses.[116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123] A number of hospital staff protested after people were transported to the hospitals dead or in critical condition with gunshot wounds.[124] The IRGC and the Basij also attacked Universities and students' dorms at night[125] and destroyed property.[126][127]

The Los Angeles Times reported that militiamen from the hard-line Iran-based Ansar-e Hezbollah group "warned that they would be patrolling the streets to maintain law and order".[128]

Casualties

See also:
Death of Sohrab Aarabi, and 2009 Iranian university dormitory raids

While the

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran counted 34 of them, claiming to have eyewitness reports of much higher numbers.[132] Human rights activists in Iran called for independently collecting information about the killed, injured, and arrested people.[133]

Among those who were killed by the government forces, names such as Sohrab Aarabi, Naser Amirnejad,[134][135] Masoud Hashemzadeh,[136] and Mohammad Kamrani are confirmed.[137][138][139] Among them, the death of Sohrab Aarabi received special news attention, after Mousavi and Karroubi visited his family.

The families of those who died were allegedly subjected to penalties and bureaucratic

Shi'ite cycle of mourning on the third (23 June), seventh (27 June), and 40th (30 July) day after a person's death may give the protests sustained momentum, similar in fashion to what occurred during the 1979 Iranian Revolution.[142]

Torture of prisoners

Opposition leaders have claimed that the prisoners have been tortured and raped in prison.[143] Opposition leaders and world leaders condemned the abuse. However, Iran's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, denied that prisoners were abused.[144]

Former chairman of Iranian parliament Mehdi Karroubi stated that male and female prisoners have been raped in the prison and their genitals were torn, but it is not yet proven. He asked the head of the assembly to investigate the issue in a letter to the head of Assembly of Experts.[145] Iran's police chief, Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, acknowledged that the prisoners had been abused and raped.[146]

Additionally, several of the detained died while in prison. Authorities claimed that the deaths were caused by "pre-existing conditions". However, examinations of the bodies showed signs of torture, including broken bones, finger nails torn off, and rape.[143][147]

Iranian film maker

Rooz, wrote her story and described the torture and sexual violence in Iranian prison.[149]

Testimonies from victims of rape by the Iranian regime's agents in jail can be downloaded here: Blogger

Censorship

See also: Censorship in Iran and Communications in Iran

News media

Silent demonstration from Hafte Tir Square to Enqelab Square, on Karim Khan Zand Street and Karim Khan Zand Bridge. Tehran, 16 June 2009

According to the Telegraph, on 14 June "Iran's regime was doing its utmost to choke off the flow of news from its capital".

electronic warfare'.[154]

On 15 June, Belgian national television reporter Jef Lambrecht from the

VRT and his sound technician, Vandervorst, were arrested in Tehran. They had been doing a story on the riots and had gotten caught in the middle of the violence. While Lambrecht had taken a punch, Vandervorst was arrested by riot police. When Lambrecht went to check where Vandervorst was being taken, he was promptly arrested as well. Both were taken to the Ministry of Information and detained in the basement. They were both released after two hours with strict instructions not to make any photos or film recordings of the protests. At the same time, two Dutch reporters from Nova were also arrested and deported.[155]

On 16 June, the Ministry of Culture issued a directive banning all foreign media from leaving their offices.[156] This directive stipulated that international news outlets could still talk about rallies in their live reports, however, they were not allowed to leave their hotel rooms and offices to witness the protests. Iranian government-run television was not affected by the restrictions.[157] On 20 June, the Ministry of Culture intensified the restrictions by banning international media from reporting on the demonstrations altogether unless they received permission from Iranian authorities.[158]

On 5 August, the Association of Iranian Journalists was forcibly closed when its offices in Tehran were raided by government security forces.[159] The International Federation of Journalists released a statement criticizing the Iranian government for the forcible closure of the Association of Iranian Journalists and calling for freedom of the press.[159]

BBC correspondent John Simpson was arrested, his material confiscated, and then released.[160] Reporters from the Italian public television broadcaster RAI stated that one of its interpreters was beaten with clubs by riot police and the officers then confiscated the cameraman's tapes.[40] ABC News reporter Jim Sciutto has also had material taken. People from the German public broadcasters ZDF and ARD have been harassed as well, with men carrying batons and knives reportedly storming the ARD's Tehran office and taking the technician for further questioning (who was released the day after).[citation needed]

Ahmadinejad responded to civil liberties concerns by stating Iranians enjoyed "absolute freedom" of speech. "Don't worry about freedom in Iran ... Newspapers come and go and reappear. Don't worry about it."[161]

On 5 July 2009, the

Sunday Times reported that the Iranian state media have been transmitting "confessions" by demonstrators against the alleged rigging of the presidential vote claiming they did so under the influence of the Voice of America, the BBC, and other foreign media agencies. Their faces have been obscured in the TV broadcasts, which the newspaper claims, after speaking to witnesses, is due to facial bruising resulting from torture whilst in custody, which included several instances of male rape.[162]

Internet censorship

Main article:
Role of Internet

On Saturday following the elections, Mir-Hossein Mousavi's supporters started

DDoS attacks against president[163] Ahmadinejad's site and exchanged attack tools through sites such as Facebook and Twitter.[164] After the attacks, the government stopped Internet access.[164] On 13 June, as the election results were being announced, Iran shut down all Internet access for about 45 minutes, then restarted it apparently with lower bandwidth; this may have been in order to set up filters to block sites like YouTube that could be used for political purposes.[165] When thousands of opposition supporters clashed with the police on 13 June, Facebook was filtered again. Some news websites were also blocked by the Iranian authorities. Mobile phone services including text messaging also had stopped or had become very difficult to use since the day before the election.[166] Specifically, all websites affiliated with the BBC were blocked,[167] as well as those affiliated with The Guardian.[citation needed] Iranian Internet users used social media to trade lists of open web proxy servers as a means of getting around the restrictions, but the Iranian authorities monitoring these media gradually blocked these proxies, so that after two weeks very few proxies were still working in Iran.[citation needed] Associated Press labeled the actions as "ominous measures apparently seeking to undercut liberal voices".[40] An anti-censorship software, Freegate, developed by Global Internet Freedom Consortium
, was widely used and proven effective. The software was developed by oversea Chinese scientists to allow mainland Chinese users to break through the "great firewall" in China, and was also found to be very effective in Iran.

Iran was known to operate one of the world's most sophisticated Internet filtering systems, with widespread blockades on specific websites. During the protests, operation of this system dramatically intensified.[168] Yet, Iranian Green Movement online activists continued their political activism and resisting online repression by adopting different strategies such as: "(1) de-identification, (2) network reformation, (3) circumvention, (4) self-censoring, and (5) being inconspicuously active".[169]

Alleged foreign involvement

On 26 August, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei released a statement through Iranian state television. He said that although he did not believe opposition leaders were working as agents of foreign governments, he did believe that the protests were organized and planned, possibly without the knowledge of the Iranian political opposition. He said that "This plot was defeated, since fortunately our enemies still do not understand the issue in Iran", specifically pointing to foreign involvement in the protests.[170][171]

On 16 June, Der Spiegel cited Voice of America as reporting that the Iranian government had recruited as many as 5,000 Lebanese Hezbollah fighters to clash with protesters.[172] On 19 June, CNN reported that, according to media reports and online chatter, the Basij "seem to have added some Arabic-speaking members – suspected of being [Lebanese] Hezbollah fighters."[173] In response, a spokesman for Hezbollah denied any involvement with the turmoil in Iran and stated that Hezbollah is not taking sides in what it considers to be an internal Iranian affair.[174]

On 17 June, The Jerusalem Post quoted two Iranian protesters who claimed that "Palestinian forces" (which the article states are members of Hamas) were working with the Basij in helping crush the protests.[175]

Statements by Iranian figures

Government figures

Candidates

Presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard in the protests of 15 June which recorded as the biggest unrest since the 1979 revolution
  • Incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a live address on state run television on 13 June, called the election "completely free" and the outcome "a great victory" for Iran. He also said, "[T]oday, the people of Iran have inspired other nations and disappointed their ill-wishers ... propaganda facilities outside Iran and sometimes inside Iran were totally mobilized against our people". Ahmadinejad praised the country's youth as well, but made no direct mention of the protests.[166] He later dismissed the protests, comparing them to "the passions after a soccer match".[43]
  • Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the main opposition candidate, issued a statement saying, "I'm warning that I won't surrender to this manipulation." Mousavi lodged an official appeal against the result to the Guardian Council on 14 June.[38] He is not optimistic about his appeal, saying that many of the group's members "during the election were not impartial".[186]
  • Reformist cleric
    Khoramabad that "this phase [Election dispute] will not subside until we [Reformist leaders] suggest so".[187]
  • Conservative candidate
    Mohsen Rezai, on 17 June, gave an ultimatum to Interior Ministry to release details of the results by that day, otherwise he would call for re-election. He said that "unprecedented delay has raised doubts about the possibility of manipulation in the results."[citation needed] Later he withdrew the election fraud claims, saying that the Guardian Council is not cooperating with him.[citation needed
    ]

Clerics

See also:
Stance of Marjas

Exiled groups

  • Reza Pahlavi, son of the former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was ousted in 1979, said: "I would love to help them [the protesters] reach complete, real freedom under a secular democratic system where there's a true separation of religion from government".[198]
  • People's Mujahedin of Iran leader Maryam Rajavi said that the "religious dictatorship and all its suppressive institutions must be done away with so that the Iranian people can hold free UN-supervised elections".[199]
  • The Tudeh Party of Iran declared that "the Supreme Leader and the coup d'état perpetrators under his leadership must be defeated vigilantly and by relying on the power of the masses".[200]

Hunger strike

A number of Iranian intellectuals[201] organized a three-day hunger strike in front of the United Nations. The invitation was signed by 42 scholars. The event was scheduled for 22–24 July 2009. Iranian journalist and writer, Akbar Ganji, spearheaded the strike to call for the release of all those who have been arrested in Iran following the protests.[202]

Among the intellectuals that signed the invitation are:

Shohreh Aghdashlou.[203][204][205] U.S. citizen Noam Chomsky was present at the hunger strike.[206]

A number of Iranians organized a two-day strike at

Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany.[citation needed] The event was scheduled for 24–25 July 2009. The invitation had a list of over[quantify] twenty people as strikers so far and a considerable[quantify] list of supporters.[citation needed] Among the strikers was Daryush Shokof.[citation needed
]

The number of cities joining the Iranian global hunger strike reached over[quantify] fifty with Toronto, Vancouver, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, as well as Italy, Australia, and Ireland. The hunger strikes are for freedom of all Iranian political prisoners and for "not" recognizing the presidential elections and its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009.[citation needed]

Robert Redford joined and supported the hunger strike in Washington on 20 July.[207]

International response

Main article: International reaction to the 2009 Iranian presidential election

U.S. President Barack Obama for maintaining that the difference between Ahmadinejad and Mousavi "may not be as great as has been advertised."[208] Makhmalbaf retorted, "Does he like it himself [when someone is] saying that there is no difference between Obama and [George W.] Bush?" He also said that other nations must "not recognize the government of Ahmadinejad as a legitimate government" and that "it's not only an internal matter- it's an international problem".[209]

However, in international popular culture, the protest has "morphed in the global consciousness, to the point that

Madonna have adopted the cause of Iranian democracy," according to The New York Times[210] Protesters have gathered in cities all over the world to protest the violence and election results. One of the largest protests was organized by United For Iran and held on 25 July 2009 in over 100 cities all over the world.[211]

Although the

Ahmadinejad upon his inauguration. He kept silent over the request of Shirin Ebadi to visit[213] Iran after the crackdown on peaceful post-election protests by the Iranian police.[214] During the election protests, more than 4,000 were arrested and nearly 70 were killed (with some sources, including Mohsen Kadivar, citing hundreds of killed), some while being held in prison.[215] In another incident, prominent activisit Akbar Ganji went on a hunger strike for three days[216] in front of the UN. The incident was followed by an official request[217]
by more than 200 intellectuals, human rights activists, and reformist politicians in Iran for a reaction from the UN. Ban, however, took no action to help end the violence in Iran.

About eight players in the

wristbands in support for Mousavi[154][218] for the first half of their game. During the break, they were ordered to remove them, seven of the eight complied. They were subsequently suspended. Likewise, Italian footballer Francesco Totti sent a message of greeting to the Iranian youth during the protests.[219][220]

A group of Iranian "artists and writers in exile" published an open letter in support of the protests.[221] Significant protests have been held in major cities all throughout the world. Demonstrators in Los Angeles have protested daily calling not only for election reform but complete regime change. Demonstrators have been seen holding signs stating, "No Ahmadi(nejad), no Mousavi, no Islamic Republic!," "No more Islamic Republic."

Use of religion

The Economist reported that supporters of Mousavi have enlisted religious symbolism on their side. This directly appeals to the notion of injustice and redemption at the heart of Shia Islam.[222]

For Iran, one of the links of communication exist solely because of the ideology the revolutionary movement was based upon Islamism (Poursaied, p. 136). The religious institutions were used to communicate from one revolutionary group to another. These institutions consist of "mosques, ritual centres, and even charity funds,"[223] and these venues allowed people to gather right under the nose of the government in order to become organised.

Protesters have deliberately dressed modestly. The marches in Tehran saw women in chadors and turbaned clerics,[222] some of whom were seen thronging Mousavi's car during the 15 June rally at Revolution Square.[224] According to Anna Johnson of Associated Press, conservative women in black chadors have joined the liberal youth for the common goal of trying to get their voices heard.[225] The Time reported that some protesters believed they had a religious duty to protest.[226]

Protesters have also made use of slogans such as "Allahu Akbar" (a common Islamic Arabic saying that translates to "God is great") from the revolutionary era.

Qur'an with them, citing its verses bringing about peace.[228] When mourning the deaths of slain protesters, the marchers chanted "Peace be upon (Prophet) Mohammed and his family."[229]

A bystander,

funeral services for her, which according to Shia Islam, must be held on the third, seventh, and 40th day after the martyr's passing. Robert Tait and Matthew Weaver of The Guardian noted that it was funeral processions on the 40th day of mourning of fallen protesters in 1979 that created momentum in toppling the shah's regime.[230] The idea of martyrdom resonates deeply amongst the Shiite Muslim population of Iran. The Shiite faith was founded on the idea of self-sacrifice in the cause of justice.[231]

Legacy

According to the leader of the

Mohammed Ali Jafari—the problem of the election was not that the reformers had been denied victory but that they had challenged the tenets of the Islamic Revolution, and that the system of the Islamic Republic could no longer depend on popular support. In a leaked video of a meeting of the leaders of the Revolutionary Guard he stated, "It was a blow that weakened the fundamental pillars of the regime. ... Anyone who refuses to understand these new conditions will not be successful".[232]

Inspired art

See also

Arab Spring protests

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