Posted on 02/27/2016 4:34:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
Partial election results in Iran on Saturday point to major gains by reformists and moderates who favor expanding freedoms and engaging with the West, and who defended the recently implemented nuclear deal with world powers against opposition from hard-liners.
Friday's election was the first since last summer's agreement was finalized, lifting international economic sanctions in exchange for Iran curbing its nuclear program. U.S. officials had hoped the deal would strengthen President Hassan Rouhani and other moderates, paving the way for greater cooperation on other regional issues.
Reports in the semi-official Fars and Mehr news agencies showed hard-liners losing ground in the 290-seat legislature. None of Iran's three main political camps -- reformist, conservative and hard-line -- was expected to capture a majority, but the reformist camp is on track for its best showing in more than a decade. ...
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The terrorism and nukes have been funded
by the White Mosque
and the complicit, EXEMPT GOP
that lied to American voters.
The “moderates” will take a little longer to kill us.
So ‘death to America’ becomes what, poop on America, to we really don’t like America, to John Kerry is a doo-doo head? Iran us STILL the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Iranian hardliners are the ones who shoot you
Iranian moderates are the ones who reload the guns
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