Iran protests for freedom gave their results. The election authority gave its consent to recount the disputed votes. Iranian Mehr News reports that the presidential election results announced by the Interior Ministry must be confirmed by the Guardian Council, the council spokesman Abbas Ali Kadkhodaie has said. Guardian Council Secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati has issued a statement asking protesting presidential candidates to submit their legal complaints about Friday’s election.

You might think the President of Iran is the ultimate power in that country. In reality that rests in the hands of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has ordered the Guardian Council to examine allegations of voter fraud in the recently held Iranian elections.

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responding to CNN's Christian Amanpour, declined to guarantee the safety of his rival Mir Hossein Moussavi.

The newly re-elected president of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking of his victoy speach compared the street protests of his opponents to football match and said "It doesn't matter," reports CNN.

In the wake of the, many would say, unexpected victory by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the Iranian presidential election on Saturday, reports have arisen that moderate candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi is under house arrest.

It easy to early to make predictions about the 2009 Iran election results, but conflicting information is already coming out of Tehran. So far the result of the 2009 Iran elections is that both candidates have declared victory. However, more news agencies say Mahmound Ahmadinejad has a lead.

Given the fact that Iran plays such a large role in the Middle East and United States Foreign Policy, it is quite understandable that the world is very anxious for Iran's 2009 election results. I am quite sure that the United States government in particular is very interested in these results.

A senior ally of Mir Hossein Mousavi said the moderate candidate was set to defeat current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as polls remained open later to allow citizens to vote.

Opinion polls in Iran suggest that two reformist candidates could pose serious challenges to incumbent President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in this week's voting. But opinion polls in Iran are notoriously inaccurate, particularly when trying to predict election results for the entire country.

Islamabad and Tehran have signed a 25-year natural gas pipeline deal under which Iran aims to export some 150 million cubic meters of gas to Pakistan per day. But there are some major obstacles to overcome before any Iranian gas actually crosses the border into Pakistan - and even more before that gas can be routed to India.

According to Iran's ILNA news agency, Iran's government has blocked access to social networking site Facebook ahead of the June 12th presidential elections. The reason: to stop supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi from using the site for his campaign.