Iranians begin protesting election results asking where is my vote

Tehran, Iran -- Just one day after Iran’s presidential election, thousands of supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets in protest over what many claim has been a fraudulent election with claims of vote rigging by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in which the President was declared winner by a landslide.

Both in the streets and online, supporters angrily voiced their opinions about the flawed election which may turn this Democratic Islamic Republic into a dictatorship “Mr. Mousavi we are with you all the time
we know what happened in Iran!” said Sahar Fahd.   The Mousavi camp has labeled the election “a charade” as the Iranian government has disabled national cell phone and text messaging services in an attempt to block their opponents from communicating with each other and their followers.

Sareh Koshi says of the election “We all voted for Mousavi, what is going on?”  regarding the public announcements of Ahmadinejad’s landslide victory over Mousavi.   “Is this really a Republic Government?” cried Mahdi Fard.

On the popular social networking website Facebook, thousands of Iranians have changed their profile icon to a green “Where’s my vote?” icon as a symbol that they feel both their votes and their voices have been stolen.    For millions of Iranians, Mousavi represented hope and change similar to the campaign run by our own President, Barrack Obama last November, who promised to soothe Iran’s global relations and pull back from the hard line stance of the current administration which has done nothing but alienate Iran on the global scene, leading to economic hardhsip for many in the country.  

While Mousavi’s campaign ads promoted a new Iran that is a world leader through cooperation and commerce, the Ahmadinejad ads showed Iranian soldiers taking British soldiers hostage and threats to western powers regarding Iran’s nuclear program.