verte76
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A hard-liner was elected to the Presidency in Iran. The guy evokes the memory of Khoumeini and the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Is this going to make U.S.- Iranian relations more tense?
A_Wanderer said:It would be just like the US elections, if in the US you were running Jerry Falwell against Pat Buchanan and they were each puppets of a ruling class of theocrats who command the loyalty of their own enforcers and because of this there was an election boycott by a significant proportion of the population.
I mean Rafsanjani is just as bad as the "conservative" opponent, there was absolutely no representation for the reformist movement, merely puppets of the Mullah's in their charade to the world.
The most worrying thing is the commitment to the atomic program by both the candidates and the stated intention of the weapons.
"If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world",' ~ Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, December 2001
It is that type of aspiration that can get millions of people incinerated in nuclear firestorms, I truly do hope that one way or another (preferably diplomacy and democracy) that never, ever happens.