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  • Forte participation en Iran pour élire le successeur de Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - PRÉSIDENTIELLE IRANIENNE - FRANCE 24
    http://www.france24.com/fr/20130614-debut-election-presidentielle-iranien-vote-bureaux-ouverture-ahma

    Apparemment les citoyens iraniens, contrairement aux dirigeants occidentaux ( souvent élus avec un taux de participation bien moindre) et leurs subordonnés arabes (auto-élus le plus souvent), n’ont pas considéré les élections de leur président comme étant sans enjeu.

    Quelque 50 milions d’électeurs étaient appelés aux urnes ce vendredi 14 juin pour désigner le successeur du président Mahmoud Ahmadinejad à la tête de la République islamique d’Iran, après deux mandats de quatre ans. L’affluence était telle que le ministère de l’Intérieur a dû prolonger de quatre heures la clôture du scrutin. Selon le responsable des opérations de vote pour la province de Téhéran, Safar-Ali Baratlou, la participation devrait atteindre au moins 70 % dans cette région. Différents responsables locaux ont également fait état dans les médias d’une participation d’au moins 70% à 18 heures locales dans d’autres provinces.

    • Iranian Moderate Elected President in Rebuke to Conservatives

      https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/middleeast/iran-election.html?hp&_r=0

      By THOMAS ERDBRINK
      Published: June 15, 2013

      TEHRAN — In a striking repudiation of the ultraconservatives who wield power in Iran, voters have overwhelmingly elected a mild-mannered cleric who campaigned on seeking greater personal freedoms and a more conciliatory approach to the world.

      Iranian state television reported on Saturday that the cleric, Hassan Rowhani, 64, had more than 50 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff in the race to replace the departing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose tenure was defined largely by provocation with the West and a seriously hobbled economy at home.

      The hard-line conservatives aligned with the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, placed at the back of the pack of six candidates, indicating that Iranians were looking for their next president to change the tone, if not the direction of the nation, by choosing a cleric who served as the lead nuclear negotiator under an earlier reformist president, Mohammad Khatami.

      During the Khatami era, Iran froze its nuclear program, eased social restrictions and promoted dialogue with the West. Friday’s election, which electrified a nation that had lost faith in its electoral process, also served the supreme leader’s goals: restoring at least a patina of legitimacy to the theocratic state, providing a safety valve for a public distressed by years of economic malaise and isolation, and returning a cleric to the presidency. Mr. Ahmadinejad was the first noncleric to hold the presidency, and he often clashed with the religious order and its traditionalist allies.

      Mr. Rowhani has been a strong supporter of the disputed nuclear program. And while he is expected to tone down the tough language with the West, he also once boasted that during the period that Iran suspended uranium enrichment, it had made its greatest nuclear advances because the pressure was off.

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  • Une surprise à venir pour l’élection présidentielle en Iran ?

    Momentum Builds For Rowhani As Vote Draws Near
    | IranWire
    http://iranwire.com/en/projects/974

    On Tuesday evening in central Tehran, small crowds of candidates’ supporters gathered on street corners to pass out campaign leaflets, stopping passersby to argue the case for their candidates. The evening was warm and many paused to talk, debating who would be best poised to revive the economy and repair Iran’s ties with the world. In interviews across the city, many Iranians who even just a week ago had prepared to boycott the election now said they planned to vote. Many said they would vote for Hassan Rowhani, whose campaign appears to be finally generating excitement amongst urban, middle-class fence-sitters, creating an eleventh hour surge that may propel the reformist candidate’s chances in Friday’s election. “We need someone to address these sanctions and all the issues they have caused for us,” says Leila, a 28-year-old information technology expert. “I will vote for him, and I hope he wins.”

    The boost in public support for Rowhani, whose campaign symbol is a key, emphasizing the many doors that are locked to Iran, comes as many Iranians shake off their reluctance to vote. For those who felt the system discounted their votes in 2009, the decision to participate again in the process was a painful one. Sima, 37, says “At first I did not think my vote was going to change anything, but now I am going to vote”. She and her husband have been seeking out friends and encouraging friends to vote as well. Their efforts seem in line with a wider shift in mood in places like central Tehran. As Vahid, a 32-year-old salesperson says: “Last week many of my friends were set to boycott the election, but now many are voting.”

    • Les Iraniens élisent leur président sur fond de crise économique
      La Croix /13/6/13 - Mis à jour le 14/6/13 - 09 H 50 / Agnès Rotivel, à Téhéran, à Varamin (Iran)

      Dans le wagon, la discussion prend une tournure plus politique. Une femme, la soixantaine, lance : « Quel que soit le nouveau président, rien ne changera. » L’étudiante en psychologie assise à ses côtés explique qu’elle va voter aujourd’hui pour avoir le tampon sur sa carte d’identité « parce que je ne veux pas de problème avec l’université. Mais je mettrai un bulletin blanc ».

      Une jeune fille plus jeune, visiblement issue des quartiers bourgeois du nord de la ville, tente de la convaincre de choisir le réformateur Hassan Rohani, adoubé par l’ancien président Mohammed Khatami, très aimé des jeunes. « Sinon, c’est Saïd Djalili qui l’emportera » (NDLR : le négociateur du dossier nucléaire, ultraconservateur, véritable bête noire de beaucoup d’Iraniens). « Le choix est déjà fait », lance sans illusion la voisine d’en face. « C’est Khamenei (le guide suprême de l’Iran, NDLR) qui décide et il prendra Djalili. »