The Iranian filmmakers
Marjane Satrapi and
Mohsen Makhmalbaf called on Tuesday for the international community to deny the election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and they called it a "coup".
"We are here to ask the international community to reject the legitimacy of Mr Ahmadinejad as president. The Iranian people want the international community to wait until Iran announces her real president, Mir Hossein Moussavi”, said Marjane Satrapi at a press conference in Parliament, where she was invited by Green “Daniel Cohn-Bendit”.
"What happened in Iran is not a fraud, it is a coup," said the author and filmmaker of the comic
Persepolis.
She presented as a document of the Iranian Ministry of Interior that showed just before the announcement of the victory of Mr. Ahmadinejad, Mr. Moussavi apparent winner of the ballots. The paper declared the number of votes Mr. Moussavi, 19,075,723 votes, (Mehdi) Karoubi 13,387,104, and 5,698,000 votes Mr. Ahmadinejad is. It is 12% of the vote, 62%
"Recognizing the legitimacy of Mr. Ahmadinejad is denaiel of the legitimacy of the Iranian people. We need you to support the democratic movement of the Iranian people who want to live in peace and be able to dream and to define their place as a great nation within the international community, "Ms. Satrapi said.
"Tomorrow will be too late," she concluded, along with filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who read the same statement in Persian.
