Iran elects hardline new leader

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Iran’s "Election"FIXED.

*Currently, the fundamentalist hardliners are certain that Ahmadinejad will be announced as the winner in the run-off on Friday. Basijis are on alert to take necessary action in case of any unrest. The Iranian police are aware of this plan and it is said that the meeting between Ghalibaf and Rafsanjani a couple of nights ago revolved around this issue. A ‘legal coup’ is underway. Rafsanjani is well aware of this course of events and is trying to prevent the coup to happen. But he is also aware that he himself is not safe.*Sadly, this comes as no surprise. The mullahs will never give up power without a fight.

ROBERT MAYER reports on a massive election boycott, and open friction between hardliners and reformists.

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We have a winner in Iran, ladies and gentlemen…

And he is… Hardliner Ahamdinejad!.. (give the man a round of applause)… Of course Reuters wants us to be alarmed.
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Ultra-conservative Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept to victory in Iran’s presidential election on Saturday, an official said, spelling a possible end to fragile social reforms and rapprochement with the West.*

What reforms and what rapprochement exactly? Only the fuddy-duddies at Reuters (and maybe a handful in our State Dept.) could believe that even existed.

Anyway, as Brother Ledeen points out, hardly anyone voted… not that that would occur to Reuters. First hand reporting is not their long suit. Just, you know, round up a few quotes from the usual suspects and phone it in. They don’t even bother to check the blogs.

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Guess that is settled. Wonder what the younger people will do.
 
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Guess that is settled. Wonder what the younger people will do.
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From the article: Basijis are on alert to take necessary action in case of any unrest…tells me all I need to know –
 
It´s possible that were the efect like Nixon in China, we will see
 
The US may view Iran’s presidential election through the lens of the nuclear threat. But that’s not how Iranians see it.

For them, it’s jobs, not bombs. With an official unemployment rate of 16 percent, and unofficial estimates of 30 percent, poor Iranians on Friday surged behind a religious hard-liner and blacksmith’s son who promised to develop the country’s economy and more evenly distribute oil wealth.

That Iranians might risk popular social reforms under President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not appear to be as important as the outlook for another million young people entering the job market this fall.

Iran’s Islamic theocracy - and by extension, its potential development of a nuclear weapon - could very well rise or fall on the jobs issue. For that’s where the internal threat to the regime lies, in millions of unemployed youth.

It’s hard to see how Mr. Ahmadinejad’s model, which touts domestic over foreign investment, will be very effective in today’s interconnected world economy. Especially since he’s just alienated Iran’s business class with his populist campaign.

csmonitor.com/2005/0627/p08s03-comv.html?s=u
 
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