Mullah Issues Fatwa to Rig Votes

Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi issued which sanctions cheating in Friday’s presidential election. Supervision over one-third of the ballot boxes has been taken away from the police and given to the Passdaran Revolutionary Guards.

“After the rapid decrease in the number of votes of one of the candidate (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) in late April, one of the Qom Seminary School professors, who also heads a research institute there and previously spoke at the Tehran Friday prayers, called for ‘changing the votes’ in a secret meeting, quoting a line from the Qoran, and adding, ‘If someone is elected president whereby Islamic principles that are currently on the rise in Lebanon, Palestine, Venezuela and other parts of the world, start diminishing, it is Haraam [forbidden by Islam] to vote for that person. We shouldn’t vote for that person and we should inform the people not to vote for him either, or else. For you, as administrators of the election, everything is permitted to this end.”

Funny he should mention Venezuela, isn’t it?