A quick note on the Iranian elections this weekend; Obama’s Cairo speech was timed perfectly to be heard BEFORE the Iranian elections. The speech hammered away at the need for basic freedoms in Muslim nations. This was not specifically directed at Iran but it definitely did apply there.
Iran has a large population and that population, unlike other Muslim populations, is smart, young and modern and they have experienced the “good life” once before and long for its return.
This election was supposed to get rid of the total idiot MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD that has failed on a number of fronts including getting Iranians out of their economic doldrums. He has, on the other hand, made himself into an international joke and an international threat BUT he obeyed his religious leaders who were/ are in total control of him and the government.
The challenger MIR HOSSEIN MOUSAUI was a re-former supported by young Iranians who want change.
There was a huge turnout for the election with polls having to remain open for an additional six (6) hours in some places. This was a good sign for the reform movement as many of those voting were young Iranians who for the first time saw an opportunity for change.
The next day, the religious leader of the country and, for all intents and purposes, its king and supreme ruler (AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI), declared a “landslide” victory for AHMADINEJAD; an obviously rigged election.
You see, the new guy would not have been easy to control by the theocrats and therefore a danger to their theocracy so a victory for MOUSAUI could not be allowed.
Since the election was so obviously rigged, supporters of MOUSAUI are rightly pissed and are showing their displeasure by burning some tires in the streets and other doing other “minor” rioting actions.
The Iranian “Revolutionary Guards” will not put up with any rioting or protesting or any threatening gestures to the theocratic rule of the clerics and will use all the force they need.
BUT maybe, just maybe, the people have had enough of life under the thumbs of the clerics and maybe, just maybe they are willing to do something about it other than through political action because obviously the political route will never work since the Ayatollah declared Ahmadinejad’s victory a “divine assessment” which basically means, God wants him to win and we know what God wants and therefore we will do what God directs us to do and since you did not vote as God wished, we spit on your votes.
Believe it or not, I have a brother who was born during WWII in Teheran, Iran and died there as an infant of pneumonia and is buried there so I have a connection with Iran and wish the people the best and hope they will rid themselves of the idiots controlling their destinies.
Iran has a large population and that population, unlike other Muslim populations, is smart, young and modern and they have experienced the “good life” once before and long for its return.
This election was supposed to get rid of the total idiot MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD that has failed on a number of fronts including getting Iranians out of their economic doldrums. He has, on the other hand, made himself into an international joke and an international threat BUT he obeyed his religious leaders who were/ are in total control of him and the government.
The challenger MIR HOSSEIN MOUSAUI was a re-former supported by young Iranians who want change.
There was a huge turnout for the election with polls having to remain open for an additional six (6) hours in some places. This was a good sign for the reform movement as many of those voting were young Iranians who for the first time saw an opportunity for change.
The next day, the religious leader of the country and, for all intents and purposes, its king and supreme ruler (AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI), declared a “landslide” victory for AHMADINEJAD; an obviously rigged election.
You see, the new guy would not have been easy to control by the theocrats and therefore a danger to their theocracy so a victory for MOUSAUI could not be allowed.
Since the election was so obviously rigged, supporters of MOUSAUI are rightly pissed and are showing their displeasure by burning some tires in the streets and other doing other “minor” rioting actions.
The Iranian “Revolutionary Guards” will not put up with any rioting or protesting or any threatening gestures to the theocratic rule of the clerics and will use all the force they need.
BUT maybe, just maybe, the people have had enough of life under the thumbs of the clerics and maybe, just maybe they are willing to do something about it other than through political action because obviously the political route will never work since the Ayatollah declared Ahmadinejad’s victory a “divine assessment” which basically means, God wants him to win and we know what God wants and therefore we will do what God directs us to do and since you did not vote as God wished, we spit on your votes.
Believe it or not, I have a brother who was born during WWII in Teheran, Iran and died there as an infant of pneumonia and is buried there so I have a connection with Iran and wish the people the best and hope they will rid themselves of the idiots controlling their destinies.
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