In fact the elections that year would be famously mired in fraud , and the world would witness the bloody repression by the theocracy in power — an outcome which apparently shocked Cohen , but was not surprising to Iranians who had lived under 30 years of repression .
" في الواقع ، اتّضح أنّ الانتخابات ذاك العام كانت مليئة بالغشّ وكان العالم شاهدًا على قمع الديموقراطية الدموي من قبل النظام السلطوي .