Iranian Americans protest Iran election results

Protesters wore green T-shirts and bandanas and waved red, green and white Iranian flags in support of Hossein Mousavi, Iran's former prime minister who rivaled Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the election. Iran announced Saturday that Ahmadinejad was re-elected president with 63 percent of the vote, defeating Mousavi and other candidates considered more pro-Western. The margin of victory was greeted with skepticism and protests in the Islamic state and throughout the world, according to media reports. "There were numerous polls before the election," said a Los Angeles protester who declined to give his last name. "Even a lot of governmental polls, pre-election polls, indicated Ahmadinejad had less than 20 percent of the vote -- at most. And Mousavi had 60 to 80 percent of the vote." "The way they did the counting, (the government) replaced all the observers and brought in their own observers," he said. "They took boxes of polls and counted them in a secret room. The best evidence (of fraud) is the poll, the people -- the people standing in the lines (to vote)." The protest was peaceful and no arrests were reported, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.