Rumors that the Iranian elections had crooked election results in 150 or more Iranian cities is totally false. Nothing of the sort happened. According to Iranian government sources.

Quoted by Press TV, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, the spokesman for the authoritative Guardian Council -- a 12-member panel of clerics charged with certifying the vote -- denied claims by another losing candidate, Mohsen Rezai, that irregularities had occurred in up to 170 voting districts.

"Statistics provided by the candidates, who claim more than 100 percent of those eligible have cast their ballot in 80 to 170 cities are not accurate -- the incident has happened in only 50 cities," Mr. Kadkhodaei said.

But he said that a voter turnout in excess of the registered voting list was a "normal phenomenon" because people could legally vote in areas other than those in which they were registered. Nonetheless, some analysts in Tehran said, the number of people said to be traveling on election day seemed unusually high.

Cross Posted at Power and Control