Excerpts from Presidential Candidate Mousavi’s statement about fraud in the Iranian presidential election

Illegal use of governmental and public resources and capabilities … It is strange that the Guardian Council has rejected the qualifications of hundreds of candidates for Majlis election over minor excuses, or has annulled the results of the elections on the basis of certain allegations, such as bribery (for instance, on charges that some people have been given one course of a meal). It reserves the right for itself to revise its view about the result of the election at every stage that it finds necessary, or even to annul the election or to reject some ballot boxes, so that in its words it can remove any traces of possible violations. However, it has remained silent in the face of all these offenses, the violation of [firm] principles of the Constitution, and the loss of the requirements of honesty and piety, while on the basis of article 58 of the presidential election law, it was duty-bound to disqualify Mr. [Mahmoud] Ahmadinezhad.

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