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Western media that is under absolute influence of Israeli lobby is trying to dampen the high voter turnout of Irans parliamentary elections.

The message from Iran is that the high turnout of 65 percent in the parliamentary elections is a response of loyalty against Western pressures and threats.

Press TV has interviewed Mark Dankof, former US Senate candidate from San Antonio about US media's purposeful attempts to spin Iran's elections in a negative light and the disproportionate influence and control of the American news media by the Israeli lobby in the US. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: In monitoring some of the media, they led in their coverage of Iran's election by saying 'not fair or free' and then they continued with their story; however, some of these same entities not that long ago were extremely encouraging with so-called elections i.e. one-man elections in Yemen, which we know was absolutely no election at all. Why the difference, what exactly is going on?

Dankof: I think you can pretty much tell the difference in terms of what it is that Israel wants and what the Western multinational corporations want.

A primary example of this - Ron Kampeas had an article recently in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which is reproduced by the Jerusalem Post talking about the fact that this pro-Israel element in the US was behind the effort to get the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) or the People's Holy Warriors de-listed by the American State Department as a terrorist organization.

And when we continue to read this article we discover that there is a group called the Global Initiative for Democracy that sponsored this gathering, which are major Israeli lobby figures in the American government and these American governmental figures have clear links to Israel and to Netanyahu's war lobby.

This not an accident and I think it's a microcosm of the larger problem that we come to when we start looking at all of the influence that Israel has in the Western media and the number of these global institutes-for-democracy of various kinds operating under various guises including the National Endowment for Democracy that are little more than conduits for Israel and the Western multi-nationals to try and co-opt the local political scene wherever it takes place around the globe manipulated in a direction that is serving the usual political purposes.

Press TV: As an American here in Iran I have to say one thing I have found interesting in looking at the Iranian people is a sophistication of the electorate and how informed they are. Even children, you are able to enliven discussions about elections; kids have an opinion about what is going on politically.

We touched a little bit earlier on the low turnout in elections in the US - What do you attribute this to? Why the difference - why is there such a low turnout, not only a low turnout in the US, but it almost seems a case of political apathy?

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