Iran protests mount as Ahmadinejad wins landslide

Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a crushing victory in Iran's hotly-disputed Presidential vote,according to official results that triggered mass opposition protests.

Hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won a crushing victory in Iran’s hotly-disputed Presidential vote,according to official results that triggered mass opposition protests.

Riot police were out in Tehran as thousands of supporters of his defeated rival Mir Hossein Mousavi took to the streets shouting Down with the Dictator after final results showed Ahmadinejad winning almost 63 per cent of the vote.

The moderate ex-premier Mousavi cried foul over election irregularities and warned of the “dangerous scenario” the vote had created,as some of his protesting supporters were beaten by baton-wielding police,an AFP correspondent said.

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The interior minister said Mousavi had won less than 34 per cent of the vote,giving Ahmadinejad another four-year term in a result that dashed Western hopes of change in the Islamic republic.

Mousavi,one of Ahmadinejad’s three rivals in the most heated election campaign since the Islamic revolution,had earlier declared himself the victor,setting the scene for a tense power struggle.

The international community has been keenly watching the election for any signs of a shift in policy after four years of hardline rhetoric from the 52-year-old Ahmadinejad and a standoff over Iran’s nuclear drive.

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