It's Breaking News all over the MSM, here's FOX's take:
Iran Supreme Leader Says Vote Was 'Definitive Victory' as Crowd Chants 'Death to America'
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's supreme leader said Friday that there was "definitive victory" and no rigging in disputed presidential elections, offering no concession to protesters demanding the vote be canceled and held again.
In his first public address since demonstrators flooded the streets, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said protests should cease and the opposition must pursue its complaints within the confines of the cleric-led ruling system.
He blamed Great Britain and Iran's external enemies for trying to foment unrest but said Iran would not see a second revolution like those that transformed the countries of the former Soviet Union.
"The enemies (of Iran) are targeting the Islamic establishment's legitimacy by questioning the election and its authenticity before and after (the vote)," Khamenei said.
Press TV, an English-language version of Iranian state television, broadcast images from the crowded hall where Khamenei was speaking as the crowd and thousands of people assembled outside cheered.
At several points during Khamenei's speech, the crowd broke out into loud, seemingly-orchestrated chanting. Cameras panned across the sea of supporters as they shouted "death to America" and "death to the UK."
Khamenei said protesters would be "held responsible for chaos if they didn't end" days of massive demonstrations. The unrest has posed the greatest challenge to the system since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought it to power.
Khamenei said official results showing a landslide for hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were beyond question.
"There is 11 million votes difference, Khamenei said. "How one can rig 11 million votes?"
He remained staunch in his defense of Ahmadinejad, saying his views were closer to the president's than to those of Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful patron of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Khamenei told the defeated candidates: "I am urging them to end street protests, otherwise they will be responsible for its consequences, and consequences of any chaos."
There's lots more everywhere. This may be the start of a very long day.
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The mullahs place the blame on the UK since it's difficult to blame a President known as "I won" - O continues his practice of voting 'present' on uncomfortable issues - while team zero ponders how to make the most of the Iranian crisis.
At several points during Khamenei's speech, the crowd broke out into loud, seemingly-orchestrated chanting. Cameras panned across the sea of supporters as they shouted "death to America" and "death to the UK."
Using hatred of America and of all the West to unify the people of Iran -- a much more effective strategy than singing kumbaya as BHO does.
If protesters go into the streets from here on out, they had better be armed and prepared.
That's all there is
This may be the start of a very long day indeed.
As Epa said in another thread, there will be no revolution without bloodshed. The only way they're going to get rid of the Mullahs is by being willing to engage in massive violence, which will mean a lot of them are going to be killed.
Easy for me to say.
I'll get excited when I see the mullahs heads rolling in the streets, heads hanging from cranes or bobbing in the ground after stonings - you get the picture.
Hmmm...Funny...America is staying completely out of this thing and showing support for the demonstrators around here and they sit there now and say "Death To America"? Screw them then. I was beginning to say that the demonstations were good for the people of Iran but now with their stupid chants. I could care less now if a big old smoke cloud was all thats left!
Crazed,
The people chanting "Death to America" are Khameini's supporters, not the protestors.
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