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Yeah it's a ridiculous question. I don't hope for him to win or lose. I expect the winner will be whoever this guy chooses to be his puppet...
I know that seems like a ridiculous question to ask, but apparently some on the right actually are hoping Ahmadinejad stays in power.
Yeah it's a ridiculous question. I don't hope for him to win or lose. I expect the winner will be whoever this guy chooses to be his puppet...
That's what my Iranian co-workers says.Yeah it's a ridiculous question. I don't hope for him to win or lose. I expect the winner will be whoever this guy chooses to be his puppet...
do with this what you will but supposedly ahmedinijad is not really the ayatollah's 'guy'
plus I'm sure conservatives are worried about the internal stability of the Iranian nation if Ahmadinejad is ousted.
I hope he fails.
Well, Ahmadinejad "won" in a landslide. Reformers protest and are beaten in the streets.
Obama's apology tours don't seem to be having the desired effect.
Don't say apology tour!!!! You will be thought only as a robot! Think of a new way to say Obama is a pussy and tells our enemies sorry all the freaken time.
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what are enimies?
Politics as sport, part MMMMCC....
That was a fun sham of a fixed election.
Did anyone believe it wasn't fixed?
This is a very interesting story...so why aren't the 24 hours "news" channels covering it? It had violence and killing---everything they love to show.
Weekend, media doesn't cover on the weekend. Why do you think politicians wait until the end of the day on friday to announce controversial stuff.
FOX News won't show it. They have to show Huckabee and have his band butcher Foo Fighters songs. CNN won't show it because they're probably showing something about blacks or Muslims.
We might need a new chart.Yeah it's a ridiculous question. I don't hope for him to win or lose. I expect the winner will be whoever this guy chooses to be his puppet...
http://americanfootprints.com/drupal/node/4435
A coup that originated with the military rather than the clerical or lay political leaders resolves what I saw the the main flaw with Juan Cole's reconstruction. It also dovetails well with Interior Ministry employees' warnings that Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi, who is influential in the military, issued a fatwa authorizing manipulation of the elections. A coup led by the military is also easier to explain than one ordered by Ayatollah Khamene'i. I had been thinking about the implications of a Mousavi victory, and concluded that, given the continuing conservative dominance of Parliament, the most important changes for Iranians would be a different economic policy and the replacement of someone hostile to the old revolutionary establishment embodied by the likes of Rafsanjani with someone who was actually a part of it.
What I don't get is why Mousavi was allowed to run at all if he was unacceptable to the mullahs. If he'd been excluded in the first place, no electoral shenanigans would've been necessary. This stinks.
LOL. Doesn't really matter if Ahmaedinjad stays, he'll serve as a good counter-point rhetoric to homeboy Barack.
Which will only serve to increase the antipathy towards the US in the region as the federal government reflexively bends over for Israel.
Of course, I'm assuming that the US military could eventually (probably in a decade) GTFO of the ME.
Judging from his bio on wiki, maybe they didn't think he would run as this great reformist.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi was born on 29 September 1941 in Khameneh, East Azarbaijan, Iran, to Mir-Esma'il Mousavi (Persian: میراسماعیل موسوی), a merchant from Tabriz.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi was a student studying architecture during the Shah's regime at Tehran University. Two years after the revolution (1981), he was nominated as the Prime Minister by Khomeini. He was responsible, as head of the Council of Cultural Revolution, for shutting down the entire university system for four years. Starting in 1988, on the orders of Khomeini, a council was formed, with Mousavi as a member, to revise the regime's cons ution to drastically increase the powers of the supreme leader.
Mousavi's socialist ideology became very apparent during the 1980s when he initiated Islamic Socialist policies such as subsidized food coupons, oil coupons and converting private enterprises into government controlled en ies. Mr. Mousavi was responsible for the mass executions of 80-81 and the dark summer of 1988 where over thirty thousand political prisoners were executed and buried and mass graves.
So it was a choice between one fascist ideologue or another.
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