Iranian Presidential Election, 2009Photographer: Pietro Masturzo
Year: 2009 World Press Winner
Iran's tenth presidential election was held on June 12, 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran's official news agency, announced that with two-thirds of the votes counted, Ahmadinejad had won the election with 62% of the votes cast and that Mir-Hossein Mousavi had received 34% of the votes cast.
The European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, expressed concern over alleged irregularities during the vote, many analysts and journalists from the United States, Europe and other western based media voiced doubts about the authenticity of the results. In this famous photograph, an Iranian woman is seen shouting from a rooftop in Tehran in protest against the result of Iranian presidential elections of 2009.
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