Now, we should never get too excited about what happens in Iranian elections since their actual effect on the country's governance will only ever be slight and gradual, but the recent elections in Iran have dealt a few blows to the country's hardliners. Not only did reformists* absolutely sweep the election in the capital region, but they've won all but a single seat in the Assembly of Experts. This is potentially huge, because this is the assembly that might choose the next Supreme Leader if Khamenei dies in the next few years, which is quite possible given his age and health.
*The reformists are more like "less conservative" candidates, as Iran's guardian council gets to decide who even runs, thus hundreds or even thousands of "too liberal" candidates are disqualified, and what's left are reformers who aren't demanding much and are willing to take the long and slow approach to chage
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Jon Stewart made a joke about eight years ago that elections in Iran were about "red states and redder states"
I think the encouraging thing between these results and the election of Rouhani a few years back is that the true power structure of Iran, while still no friend to the West, is starting to prioritize economic growth and is respecting the demands of its growing secular population to be less insular, rather than following the confrontational, xenophobic tack of Ahmedinejad and his cohorts.
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Where the faint murmurs now dwindling
echo o’er tide and shore."
-A Grave Epitaph in Santa Rosa County, Florida; I wish I could remember the man's name.
Last edited by Omega Vision on Feb 29th, 2016 at 06:07 PM
Wouldn't a "Conservatives having a good time in Iran" be a weird topic though?
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^ Makes me think that they have to run to Iran now to get some good transsexual proustites. If they bought one in America, they'd be exposed within a week.
The lifting of sanctions being a high priority for the people of Iran, the conservatives being against the deal, and the moderates being a driving force.
I mean, this is part of why we did it, you know?
And the people less likely to keep the deal just got replaced with people more likely to...
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