where is the "moderate" muslim world in the iran events?
conspicous by their silence.

   
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2606131.htm?section=justin

BASIJ MILITIA 'TARGETING WOMEN'

Female protesters on the streets of the Iranian capital Tehran are living in fear of being singled out for attack by members of the country's Basij militia, the ABC has been told.
The Basij have been blamed for the deaths of a number of protesters in the recent riots, including a young woman known as Neda who was filmed dying in the street after being shot in the chest.
A source inside Tehran has told the ABC that the Basij use their plain-clothes appearance to mingle with the protesters.
"The main scary thing is the Basij. They are militants who are given batons and chains by the government," said the source, a 27-year-old engineer who wants to be known as Leyla.
"They attack and beat the people, without any notice, and they attack the women.
"The Basij are more scary than the army. They have no uniform and just wear normal clothes. So it's hard to tell who are the Basij and who are the protesters. That's why they are more dangerous."
Overnight Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards threatened to crack down on protesters if they act on calls to stage new rallies over the disputed presidential election.
Protesters have largely been kept indoors since police and the Basij militia used live ammunition and tear gas against them on Saturday.
But riot police again used tear gas to disperse about 1,000 protesters in a Tehran square on Monday.
The new threat coincides with revelations that Iran's Guardian Council has admitted there were irregularities in the election count.

   
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=828756

'NO MAJOR FRAUD' IN IRAN'S POLL RESULT
By Ali Akbar Dareini And Nasser Karimi

Iran's top electoral body, the Guardian Council, found "no major fraud" in the disputed June 12 election and ruled out annulling the results, Iran's state TV on Tuesday quoted a spokesman for the council as saying.
Opposition supporters, who allege systematic fraud, have demanded a new election and have staged near-daily protests challenging the claim that hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election by a landslide.
With Tuesday's announcement, Iran's regime appeared to be closing another door to compromise.
Iran's supreme leader had already praised Ahmadinejad as the winner and ordered post-election protesters off the streets. On Monday, the feared Revolutionary Guard threatened a crackdown if protests persist.
Such threats and the deaths of at least 17 people since the start of the protests have prompted growing concern by the international community about the fate of opposition supporters.
In New York, UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon urged an "immediate stop to the arrests, threats and use of force". UN spokeswoman Michele Montas said on Monday.
The announcement by the Guardian Council came a day after it said - in a rare acknowledgment - that there had been voting irregularities in 50 districts, including local vote counts that exceeded the number of eligible voters.
However, the council said the discrepancies were not widespread enough to affect the result.
The council agreed last week to investigate opposition complaints of problems in the voting.
The council found "no major fraud or breach in the election," a spokesman, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, was quoted by Iran's state-run English language Press TV as saying.
"Therefore, there is no possibility of an annulment taking place," he said.
Ahmadinejad's main challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has charged the election was a fraud and insists he is the true winner.
In a sign of a growing crackdown, Tehran riot police fired tear gas and live bullets on Monday to break up about 200 protesters paying tribute to a young woman whose apparent shooting death was captured on video and circulated worldwide.
A man identifying himself as the woman's boyfriend later said he had tried to dissuade her from attending the protests because of the risk, but that she told him she wanted democracy and freedom for the people of Iran.
Severe restrictions on reporters have made it almost impossible to independently verify reports on demonstrations, clashes and casualties.
Iran has ordered reporters for international news agencies to stay in their offices, barring them from reporting on the streets.

They make impression that a little bit of fraud is OK, bit twisted argument from my point of view.

CAIRO — Iran’s most powerful oversight council announced on Monday that the number of votes recorded in 50 cities exceeded the number of eligible voters there by three million, further tarnishing a presidential election that has set off the most sustained challenge to Iran’s leadership in 30 years.

........His comments came on a day when Tehran tightened its grip on power and the West hardened its stance:

* The highest legislative body in Iran, the Guardian Council, ruled out a rerun of the election and parliament set a date for the inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;

* The regime arrested Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, one of the closest aides of Mir Hossein Mousavi, who ran his newspaper and website;

* Britain expelled two Iranian diplomats after Tehran ordered two British diplomats out of Iran on Monday;

* Iranian envoys in at least five European capitals were summoned to be told that the oppression of peaceful demonstrators was unacceptable. ...........
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