sentence2: 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.
sentence1: " في الواقع، اتّضح أنّ الانتخابات ذاك العام كانت مليئة بالغشّ وكان العالم شاهدًا على قمع الديموقراطية الدموي من قبل النظام السلطوي.