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Iran's Elections For Parliament
By Micah Halpern

Monday March 17, 2008

I've Been Thinking:

Iran voted this week.
Surprise, surprise, the conservatives won.

The elections were for the 290 seats in the Iranian Parliament.
The reformers, those who respectfully do not 100% agree with Ahmadinejad, received about 25% of the vote - which is huge.

25% of the Iranian public actually dared to express this muted form of descent. To stand for election a candidate had to be vetted by the most conservative election board. Most if not all reformers were rejected - including the grandson of Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the original of the Revolution. Imagine, the Ayatollah Khomeini's heir was not extreme enough for modern Iran.

Knows in the know, know the truth.
The sad reality is that secret ballots are the limit of acceptable resistance in Iran.

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4 June 2017 12:14 PM in Thoughts


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