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Ahmadinejad's Campaign Manager Calls Election Fair, Square

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election campaign Manager Mojtaba Samareh Hashemi said that Iran's electoral process was fair and healthy. 
 

In an interview with press tv on Thursday, Samareh Hashemi said that the supporters of the defeated candidates knew fully well that "the result of the election was true".

He went on to claim that this knowledge was the reason behind the refusal of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi and Mohsen Rezaei to send representatives to the committee tasked with probing the vote result.

Iran's election watchdog, the Guardians Council, formed a "special commission" to look into the issues surrounding the election and to conduct a partial vote recount.

Samareh-Hashemi explained that the Ahmadinejad administration had temporarily suspended text-messaging services, made cell phone services intermittent and blocked certain websites to "ensure security in the country" following the post-election unrest.

He went on to accuse certain American internet service providers of implementing the policies of the US government by "launching attacks on 200 Iranian websites and helping fuel the unrest."

"Even, the election website came under cyber attack," he said.

Samareh Hashemi insisted that Mousavi must publicly declare his adherence to the law, saying all Iranians are required to abide by the Constitution.

He went on to describe the defeated candidate's recent statement as a "step forward".

Mousavi, who has rejected the result of Iran's presidential election as fraudulent, announced on Wednesday that a number of Iranian scholars would be forming a committee to pursue the objections to the vote result via the Judiciary.

Samareh Hashemi concluded by saying that Mousavi was not deemed as an opposition leader. "In Iran we have both views expressed in support of the government and views against the government and this does not mean opposition [to the government]."