Text message against Ahmadinejad
(DPA)
20 June 2005
20 June 2005
TEHERAN — After the surprising victory of hardline candidate Mahmood Ahmadinejad in the first round of Iran’s presidential election, residents of Teheran yesterday started a mobile phone text message (SMS) campaign to prevent his election in the run-off.
Ahmadinejad, the mayor of Teheran and leading member of the hardline faction, took a surprising second spot in Friday’s presidential elections after top favourite Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, with a gap of only 400,000 votes.
In the capital Teheran, the political heart of Iran, Ahmadinejad even finished top by gaining almost 1 million of the total 2.8 million votes, over 200,000 more than the powerful Rafsanjani.
“On Friday all of us must go to the (run-off) polls to vote for Rafsanjani and against Ahmadinejad,” one of the mass SMS messages said.
The perspectives of Ahmadinejad becoming president has caused a huge panic in Teheran.
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