Iran Updates: No Election Annulment, Protests ‘Dying Out?’
The mullahs have ruled out the possibiity that the Iranian election will be annulled.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s top legislative body has again ruled out any annulment of the June 12 presidential election, as demanded by two defeated candidates, state television said on Tuesday.
“Iran’s Guardian Council rejects annulment of the June 12 presidential election, saying that there have been no major polling irregularities,” the English-language Press TV said.
This news comes as several sources report that the protests are beginning to quiet down, after days of violent crackdown. At Obama’s news conference today, CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux said:
We also have people on the ground that have been seeing that the streets are quieter now and that is because they fear that they are paralyzed by fear - fear of people gone missing, fear of violence - that perhaps this is a movement that’s gone underground - that perhaps this is a movement which is dying.
Here’s Obama’s statement on Iran from his press conference, from NBC News:
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