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??