Jeez, I was looking forward to a little loosening of the screws in Iran, when the incumbent pulls off a rigged election. Holy crap! It’s like the The Gang That Couldn’t Vote Straight. Okay, how’s this on the smell test- the Mousavi vote in his hometown was under 30%. I’mADinnerJacket got something like 85% in his. Things that make you go “huh?” Next somebody managed to hand count all them millions of ballots and declare a victor 2 hours after the polls close. How?
I knew a lot of Persians (as I believe most Iranians prefer to be called) in college, before and after the last revolution. Though they were mostly kids of Shah employees, they had great things to say about their country and it’s millennia of history. Iran is an educated and Western leaning enough country that has it’s young coming up connected to the world, and dying for a little freedom. Before 1979, though the Shah was a thug, Teheran was a center of scholarship and (some) Western ideals. It’s been 30 years since a revolution turned Iran into an Islamic Republic; maybe the next generation can turn it into a democratic one this time.
Mousavi is out of the same mold as the Dinner Jacket, but progress, especially women’s rights, could have a chance under him. The current leader is definitely a nut job, so this thing really needs to be corrected before Israel pulls a preemptive nuclear strike on Iran’s nuke sites. Holy crap! Can you imagine the violence that would be unleashed against not just Israel, but her enabler, the good old US of A?
It’s terrifying, but I can’t take my eyes off it.
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