You wouldn’t know from the website of Press TV that Tehran is convulsed with violent protests, following Ahmadinejad’s theft of the Iranian Presidential election. Their website currently features an image of a smiling Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Iranian Supreme Leader, and the headline “Leader hails record turnout in Presidential vote.”
Nothing surprising there - Press TV is the mouthpiece of the Iranian regime, after all. However, it tries to pass itself off as a legitimate news organization (complete with a chat show fronted by the execrable George Galloway.) Today’s coverage is a reminder that this squalid, Holocaust denial outfit should be seen for what it is - an integral part of the Iranian regime’s arsenal of repression.
I’ve said it before, I will say it again: boycott Press TV.
I would look for Iran provoking clashes between Hizbollah or Hamas and Israel to divert attention from the election results.
Haaretz is also reporting that:
“Report: Defeated Ahmadinejad rival arrested in Iran ”
By Yossi Melman, Haaretz Correspondent, and News Agencies
“Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi was reportedly arrested Saturday following the reformist’s defeat at the polls by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Supporters of Mousavi, the main challenger to Ahmadinejad, responded to the election with the most serious unrest in Tehran in a decade and charged that the result was the work of a dictatorship.
Mousavi’s arrest was reported by an unofficial source, according to whom the presidential hopeful was arrested en route to the home of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei….”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1092304.html
Same thing at IRNA of course … http://www.irna.ir/En/