Hard to sift through all the spin in this article. Let's face it, the Iranians have made their bed and now they're going to have to lie in it. Let's hit 'em before they can hit us.
Welcome to FR. I know the MSM has brainwashed you, but you have alot to learn on Iran & difference between the pro-US populace & and the anti-US regime.
"Hard to sift through all the spin in this article."
Agree. One thing is for sure. This Ahmadinejad is a hardliner, Shiite, who wants any westernization to stop, from the social point of view. The only things he wants from the west is technology and knowledge base that goes along with it. We may read the day he assumes power, that books such as meantioned in this article are banned, because anything from the west is anti Islamic in nature. As for the 50 Mullahs losing any power. They control the government. Who is going to kick them out? And since they control who is allowed to be put on the ballots, don't expect someone in the future to show up that wants to put and end to them. The only way Iran is going to end this long nightmare is for a military leader with the secret backing of the military to take over, much like happened in Pakistan. A military leader who secretly wants Iran to kick the mullahs out, get rid of the secret service, and change the rules. But then once in, the problem is the same as usual. How does one transit to a democracy? It would take one remarkable Persian general to take over, stablize things, and then step down after a truely westernized democracy was put in place, a new constitution was set up, etc., which in essence forbids Islam to role the roost. Much as what is happening in Iraq currently. That's my take on the real situation in Iran.
The Iranians didn't make the bed, the corrupt leaders did. The election was a sham