So the Supreme Leader endorses a man who will give the appeasers and wishful thinkers in the West another reason not to do anything to stop the Iranian development of a nuclear bomb in the hope they can find a peaceful solution...while the IRI finish building their bomb!
A mullah, who won Khamnie's (and his appointed guardian council) approval to stand for election for the office of presidency is going to be someone who thinks hanging is a more humane punishment for women convicted of adultery than stoning? What does even moderation in a velayte faghi constitutional theocracy mean? Does it mean he is going to send instead of 4000 troop to Syria only 2000 of them?? Who are we trying to fool?
Rohani is the protégé Rafsanjani, the two planned Operation Karbala-5.More than 700,000 Revolutionary Guards and Basij fighters, ill-trained and ill-equipped, were thrown at the Iraqi defenses.
The IRI admit 65,000 dead, the actual total was probably twice that. Rafsanjani announced during a news conference to finally end the use of human wave attacks, and indeed, Operation Karbala-5 was the last major offensive the Iranians made in the Iran/Iraq war, Iran had just run out of men who would dive into the meat grinder. Operation Karbala-5 killed the Revolutionary Guards and Basij as offensive forces.
If a man with this history can be moderate then Bin Laden can be tree hugging socialist.
If Rouhani were a democrat and opposed to Islamic theocracy, then why would he seek office in this farcical election?He is a "reformer" only in the sense that he proposes to alter this Islamist regime around the edges.
The genius of this evil, terrorist regime is that it employs the terms and mechanisms of democracy to preoccupy useful idiots with thumb-sucking speculations. For the purpose of crushing freedom of speech, assembly, association, worship, and conscience.
Wasn it not only a few years ago when Khatami was touted as "The Harbinger of Change"?? Didn't we give him the benefit of the doubt? That he was sincere about pursuing fundamental change and greater freedoms in Iran. But his efforts were systematically undercut by Iran’s reactionary theocracy. And the worst part is that– aside from some occasional public whining– for eight years Khatami stood aside and let it happen, and in terms of human rights his adminstration was bloodier than his predecessor??
When are we going to wake up??
"When are we going to wake up?" indeed. It's a question that the modernists have repeatedly asked wishing, nay begging for their countrymen to wake up. Judging by elation and how everyone seems to have been fooled yet again by the Mollafia, I am afraid the answer is never.
Indeed never. Trouble is that Iranians never think that far ahead. Right now, they're hoping that this turban will give them more "freedom", but the parameters that define freedom for Iranains are very different than they are for others.
The "conditioning" of people of Iran has gotten to the point where "electing" a powerless cleric - a mullah - as their president is viewed as a posiitve step toward moderation. All this, while the regime continues the building of the bomb which they hope will ensure an endless reign of mullahcracy for many profitable years to come.
Reformists are proven to be worse than the hardliners. When facing Mesbah & Jannati you know who you are dealing with. Khatami and his likes pretend secularism by emphasizing the rule of law, but what law?- The IRI constitution which stands on discrimination-. Reformists and Ahmadinezhad are competing against each other in this game of demagoguery.
What's also baffling is the Western media to paint him as a reformer and a moderate?
Mullah's are experts in "Kalaam". The term Reformist sold them to the outside world and the use of “Eslahtalab” made them attractive for Iranians.
Fired up
Good analysis. But my reading of some of the Sunday shows was that they were brushing this whole thing aside as having taken place in a "fake democracy" and the fact that the term moderate does not mean the same as it does here in the west and things of that nature.
i think at the end of the day, if you read them carefully, what they seem to saying is that this entire system and what it spits out under various disguises amounts to nothing but a hill of beans.
It is quite amusing reading and listening to the Reformists, NIACis, Regime Lobbyists and operatives today. They all act like 5-year olds on Christmas Eve making their wish list for Santa!
And you don't want to be the one that tells them that there is no Santa!
So I am just going to let them dream for a while before Grinch comes and take their Christmas presents away!
Oh yeah, on the same day that everyone was talking about a new era in the US-Islamic Republic relations, Sepah announced that they are sending 4,000 people to Syria. Do these people see the problem here?
Dear Faramarz: So true; the reformers have been dreaming about getting their hands on that elusive purse string.
Regarding the troops, some speculate that these troops are already there.
In my opinion, no one wearing a Turban in the IRI can be ever trusted. The designation of this turban head as a moderate is extremely irresponsible.
Thanks everyone for participating. Appreciate all the valuable insights.
Where is Mehrban?? Does anyone know?
Iranians like to be fooled. Look at the video of BBC Persian's employee voting in IR's elections in London.
Great blog!
Thanks dear AO. Yes, I noticed. So, disheartening.