Obama Sees "Big Questions" over Results of Iran Presidential Elections

US President, Barack Obama, has declared that there were "big questions" about the legitimacy of the results of Iran's Presidential Elections.

At a news conference Tuesday, Obama said it was impossible to know what exactly happened during the elections on June 12, in which the incumbent Mahmud Ahmadinejad was reelected President of Iran, because there were no international observers present.

Yet, the American President pointed out it was for sure that a considerable percentage of the people in Iran considered the election results illegitimate.

Obama reiterated his position that it was up to the Iranians to figure a way out of the present crisis caused by daily protest rallies in which dozens of people have already been killed.

The US President firmly rejected the accusations by certain Iranian officials that the protests had been spurred through the intervention of the USA.

"This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran. This is not about the United States and the West; this is about the people of Iran and the future that they -- and only they -- will choose", President Obama said as quoted by CNN.

He also stressed, however, that the Iranian regime still had "a peaceful path" to international legitimacy, and that the US hoped it would follow it.

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