I have foretold the final result of last year’s presidential election in Iran already early in May 2009. I wrote at that time, “Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei can’t help but only endorse ‘his’ president Ahmadinejad. And when he is going to do that, he will be elected. Such are things in dictatorships.” I have also pointed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘election fraud’
Eric A. Brill’s Arguments
Posted in Academics, Iran, tagged Benford's Law, election fraud, Eric A. Brill, Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett, Iran's presidential election 2009, peer review, scientific method on October 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Clearing the Way
Posted in Iran, tagged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, election fraud, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Jahromi, Mohammad-Hassan Saffar-Harandi, new election on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s public humiliation of ‘re-elected’ President Ahmadinejad by sending a handwritten note that the pick of Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as his first vice president is ‘null and void’ makes an impact. Ahmadinejad’s cabinet rapidly decays. Iranian media report that three ministers have been sacked today: Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Culture and Islamic Guidance [...]
Benford’s Law
Posted in Iran, Science, tagged B. F. Roukema, Benford's Law, election fraud on June 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Astronomer Boudewijn F. Roukema at the Centre for Astronomy of Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun in Poland has launched an analysis of vote counts of 366 voting areas, which had been published by the Iranian Ministry of Interior, and has applied Benford’s Law in order to detect election fraud. According to these calculations, “the null hypothesis that [...]
Martyrs
Posted in Iran, tagged Abbas-Ali Kadkhodaei, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, election fraud, Guardian Council, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, martyrdom, Mehdi Karroubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohsen Rezai, Neda Agha-Soltan on June 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Somewhat hidden on Iranian government-funded presstv’s webpage you may find this Monday’s sensation. Ten or 13 killed demonstrators on Tehran’s streets, among them 19-year-old Neda, whose shocking death millions around the world have watched in an extremely graphic video, have possibly not died in vain. Iran’s Guardian Council has to admit today that probes into ballots boxes [...]