Iranian Election a Win for Moderation

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President Rouhani was relected today by a wide margin, triumphing over the hard-line elements in Iran (formerly represented by the likes of Mamoud Ahmadinejad). Considering that the Trump team has been making noise about Iran, it is good that their aggression won’t be amplified by similar aggression from Tehran. The war state in DC would have liked nothing more than to have un-diplomatic hardliners in Iran, paving the way for more aggressive action against DC’s designated enemy.

May cooler heads continue to prevail where Iran is concerned.
 
Do you honestly think that this is going to change anything when it is the religious leaders who run Iran?
 
Potter said:
President Rouhani was relected today by a wide margin, triumphing over the hard-line elements in Iran (formerly represented by the likes of Mamoud Ahmadinejad). Considering that the Trump team has been making noise about Iran, it is good that their aggression won’t be amplified by similar aggression from Tehran. The war state in DC would have liked nothing more than to have un-diplomatic hardliners in Iran, paving the way for more aggressive action against DC’s designated enemy.

May cooler heads continue to prevail where Iran is concerned.
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Tim_D said:
Do you honestly think that this is going to change anything when it is the religious leaders who run Iran?
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While it is true that the ayatollah wields ultimate power in Iran, what is true for DC – “personnel are policy” – is true for any government, including Iran’s Rouhani’s administration was notably less bellicose and more open to engagement with the West than the previous president’s.
 
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He was re-elected. Where was all of the hope & change during his previous term?
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Rouhani committed Iran to the nuclear deal, which even the Trump administration admits they are honoring, and was subsequently able to relieve some of Iran’s economic doldrums.

Iran is not going to be transformed into some western democracy, but if DC can cuddle up in bed with the Saudis – monarchists who are far more repressive of women than the Iranians – any thawing of DC-Iranian relations should be welcomed. Iran’s Shiism makes it the enemy of al-Queda and ISIS, meaning there are some areas on which we can work together.

(Or we could, if different parts of the US government weren’t supposing opposing factions in the Syrian civil war. :mad::rolleyes: :mad: )
 
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Iran is not going to be transformed into some western democracy, but if DC can cuddle up in bed with the Saudis – monarchists who are far more repressive of women than the Iranians – any thawing of DC-Iranian relations should be welcomed. Iran’s Shiism makes it the enemy of al-Queda and ISIS, meaning there are some areas on which we can work together.
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There’s hope.
More and more Iranians are fed up with the oppression inflicted on them since the Khomeini-led “Iranian Revolution” in 1979:

www.asianews.it/news-en/Young-Iranians-affected-by-the-embargo,-tired-of-political-Islam-33879.html

And:

www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/07/irans-secret-christian-movement-grows-with-help-from-abroad.html
 
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