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Ahmadinejad has been urged to report on Iran's post-vote unrest.
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Western states refuse to congratulate Ahmadinejad
Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:17:49 CMI
With hours left until the inauguration of President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the US president and some of
his European counterparts join Germany in refusing to
congratulate the Iranian official.
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday clarified
Washington's stance with regards to the disputed
re-election of Ahmadinejad as Iran's president.
“I don't have any reason to believe we will send any
letter [ to congratulate the Iranian president],” White
House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for his part, is set to
srub President Ahmadinejad after he is inei. urated on
Wednesday.
“There is no plan to send any message,” an official at the Elysee Palace told Reuters.
In addition, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not send a congratulatory message to Ahmadinejad, who,
according to official election results, garnered almost two-thirds of the votes.
‘The prime minister will not be writing to congratulate Mr. Ahmadinejad,” a spokesman said on Tuesday.
The political brush-offs follow an earlier snub by Germany on Monday saying that Chancellor Angela Merkel will
not send a customary congratulatory lefter to the Iranian official.
Merkel's spokesman Klaus Vater said on Monday that “In view of the circumstances of the controversial
re-election, the chancellor will not, as usual, write the customary letter of congratulation” to the Irarian president.
After the presidential poll in Juno, the opposition maintains that the election was “fraudulent” and calls for its
annulment.
Ever since the official annouicement of the poll resuit, Iran has witnessed widespread protests as supporters of
defeated presidential candidates Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi take to the streets to protest
Ahmadinojad's re-election.
Iranians across six continents have since staged numerous demonstrations in protest at the result of the vote,
calling on different governments not to acknowledge Ahmadinejad as Iran's president.
Iran's Guardian Council, the electoral watchdog, has disputed any allegation against the validity of the June 12
vote.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, on Monday formally endorsed
Ahmadinejad's presidency.
The president is due to be sworn in by the Iranian Parliament, Majlis, for a second term on Wednesday morning.
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