Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdullahi, an Iranian journalist in Shiraz, said yesterday [July 1] on his blog that four ballot boxes were discovered in the incomplete building of Shiraz Central Library. “The Governor of Fars [province] asked the journalists not to mention this discovery…According to election laws, the boxes should have been sent to Tehran.”Today, [July 2] Abdullahi reported that he was put under pressure to remove the news from his blog and deny it.The authorities have announced that these ballots “have nothing to do with the 10th presidential elections … and will be moved to the National Library and Archives of Iran as national files.”
