When polls open in Iran on Friday 5th July for the runoff election between a hardliner and a so-called ‘reformist’ candidate to become the next president, the only certain outcome is that the Iranian people will be the ultimate losers. Western media are already treating information on the election as if it was genuine, claiming that just over 40% of the 60 million eligible voters participated in the first round of the polls on 28 June. This was reported as a disastrously low turnout with many newspapers stating that it was “the lowest turnout in a presidential election since the 1979 revolution”. In fact, information from opposition sources inside Iran, who closely monitored thousands of polling stations, claim the real turnout was nearer 12%, meaning that 88% of voters boycotted the election, representing a complete rejection of the ruling theocracy.

The opposition sources estimated that optional and mandatory votes cast in 58,640 stationary and mobile polling stations amounted to less than 7.4 million, representing a mere 12% of eligible voters. Members of the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) democratic Resistance Units stated that in some polling stations in Tehran, families of IRGC and Basij members were seen being bussed in to cast their votes. They seemed to be the only ones participating. In other polling stations no voters turned up at all. In Iran, it is an offence that can lead to a fine or other punishment to fail to vote, and voters must have their identity cards stamped in........

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