Scott Ritter has written an excellent article on the Iranian election. Follow the link posted below to the Truthdig article. I would say its a must read.
Ritter is saying that all the pre-election polling showed that Ahmadinejad really held a 2 to 1 advantage over Mousavi. So, Ritter is saying that Ahmadinejad is the democratically elected leader of Iran.
He goes on to criticize American journalists for faulty reporting on the election, and he also gets into the economic policies that are strong currents behind present day Iran.
Truthdig: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know
The undisputable fact remains that in the lead-up to Friday’s controversial presidential elections, scientific polling conducted by Western organizations such as the New America Foundation showed Ahmadinejad with a comfortable lead over Mousavi in all 30 of Iran’s provinces. Mousavi appeared to have captured the imagination of the Western press and punditry. But it is increasingly clear that, unless findings to the contrary are brought forward, he did not capture the votes of the majority of the Iranian people. The presence of tens of thousands of Mousavi supporters in the streets of Tehran does nothing to change this reality. The Western media’s repeated citation of unnamed sources claiming a Mousavi victory represents shoddy journalism and wishful thinking, nothing more.
...President Ahmadinejad will be the “democratically elected” face of Iran for the next four years.
...there are two other individuals in Iran who hold real power...speaker of the Iranian Majlis, Ali Larijani, and the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
5 comments:
I read it. Here's the problem with Iranian democracy the Mullahs pick who can run so u get people who are hand picked on both sides. It's a farce, kind of like our Corp. run democracy. Here u need so much $$ to get elected u only get elected if your connected to $$ or have it.
Yeah, similar to us. We know people who don't bother to vote for this very reason. It comes down to a matter of slight degrees. I prefer Obama-Biden over McCain-Palin, its still a matter of degrees although Palin is way too far into the religious right. Sometimes I vote because one side is just too scary.
Personally , I don't really care about Iran. No matter who runs that place they'll be hating the rest of us, anyway.
I'm not sure that the ordinary people in Iran hate the USA. Its an interesting question, do they or don't they. The government will hate America, doesn't matter there. Purely on being judgmental about how one appears, I would prefer to look at Mousavi in the headlines, Ahmadinejad looks like a caricature of what a crazed Iranian ruler is supposed to be.
We should stay out of this countries Internal affairs. It always back fires on us when we don't. Obama is doing the right thing by staying out. McCain is a school yard bully and a pawn of the Militarists. He should STFU!
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