Ahmadinejad promises calm at any cost

The Slovenian daily Dnevnik writes on the outcome of the presidential elections in Iran: "The people who were part of the first attempt at reform that sought to alter the regime under the leadership of President Mohammad Khatami are now afraid that even the formal principles of democracy have been done away with. Suspicions that election results were tampered with are rife, and few suspect that the strict customs of the Iranian regime could be subject to the democratic will of the Iranian people. ... The state's response to the widespread mistrust is consistent with the results. Meetings, mobile phones and demonstrations have been banned, Internet access restricted and protests broken up. On Saturday evening it smelled of burning cars and tear gas in Tehran. On Sunday morning everything was back to normal. [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad promises that Iran will remain calm at any cost."

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