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Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, [1] [2] with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast, [3] and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.
Did not recognise election results. Reactions to the 2009 Iranian presidential election varied across the world. Most Western countries expressed concern, while most countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa that expressed any opinion congratulated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his victory. The UN and EU also expressed concern about the aftermath.
[76] [77] The many Iranian surveys show a wide range of differing results. An opinion in the New York Times claims that this is due to the high fluctuation among voters during the campaign season. [78] The election for presidency took place on 12 June 2009. Unlike the election in 2005, the 2009 election featured high participation. The results ...
June. June 13–15. In what had become the worst civil unrest in Iran in over a decade, clashes broke out between police and groups protesting the election results from early Saturday morning onward. Protests were initially mostly peaceful but became increasingly violent. [1]
President Obama sent Special Envoy for Middle East peace George Mitchell on an 8-day tour of the Middle East starting on January 26, 2009, in which Mitchell met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Israeli army chief of staff Lt. General Gabi Ashkenaz to discuss the peace process along with ...
2009 Aruban general election. 2009 Caymanian constitutional referendum. 2009 Caymanian general election. 2009 Curaçao status referendum. 2009 Dominican general election. 2009 Haitian Senate election. 2009 Montserratian general election. 2009 Vincentian constitutional referendum. 2009 Tobago House of Assembly election.
The 2011–2012 protests in Iran were a series of demonstrations in Iran which began on 14 February 2011, called "The Day of Rage". [29] The protests followed the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests and were influenced by other concurrent protests in the region. [30] The 2016 Cyrus the Great Revolt were pro-monarchy Iranian protest that took ...
Gaza genocide. The Gaza War, also known as the First Gaza War, [ 29 ][ 30 ][ 31 ]Operation Cast Lead (Hebrew: מִבְצָע עוֹפֶרֶת יְצוּקָה), [ 32 ] or the Gaza Massacre (Arabic: مجزرة غزة), [ 33 ][ 34 ][ 35 ] and referred to as the Battle of al-Furqan (معركة الفرقان) by Hamas, [ 36 ][ 37 ] was a three ...