Iran’s electoral watchdog to consider banning candidate: report

Reuters ^ | Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:46am EDT | Yeganeh Torbati

[Olog-hai]

Iran’s electoral watchdog will consider on Monday whether to disqualify a centrist cleric from running for president, just days before Friday’s election, Iranian media reported.

The semi-official Mehr news agency, citing an unnamed source, said the Guardian Council would consider barring Hassan Rohani for revealing what it said was classified information on Iran’s nuclear program in a televised presidential debate and for some slogans chanted by his supporters during rallies.

Rohani is the most prominent moderate approved to run by the Guardian Council, a vetting body made up of clerics and jurists. The slate of eight candidates is dominated by hardliners and conservatives close to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. …

[Olog-hai]

Heh, Rafsanjani’s deputy a “moderate”.

[Gaffer]

Shoot! Shades of the Obama Modus Operandi! Obama used to try and get his opponents thrown out, too.

Truthfully, the elections in Iran will probably be fairer than the one we had in November 2012.

[Olog-hai]

I would have thought both to be the same, if anything. All candidates selected by the elites, and like Stalin said, those that count the votes rule over those that cast the votes.

[Gaffer]

Regardless of who picked what candidate to run (sounds a bit like how the MSM and the Dems try to steer which way our candidate pick turned out at least twice, don't it?) I'd expect that the actual voting turns out to be more fair (i.e., less illegal and fraudulent voting) than was here in November.

[Olog-hai]

What do you believe the Tehran riots in 2009 were about?

[Gaffer]

I believe they were about freedom. But they were abandoned and oppressed, hoping for some kind of outside intervention - the kind of help and intervention this country used to provide.

Out of a host of countries: Egypt, Libya, and now Syria Obama sided with dissidents (Muslim Brotherhood)....the only one he ignored was Iran whose rulers were already who he wanted them to be.

That said, I believe the government there has taken plenty precautions so that like won’t happen again. There won’t be massive cheating in the physical vote - the candidates are rigged. And, that is what I was commenting about with respect to the actual voting here in 2012. That election was specially targeted for fraud in a very few key precincts in select ‘battleground’ states. Ergo, Florida, Ohio, Colorado, et al..

[Olog-hai]

They were specifically about the belief that the election that reinstalled Ahmadinejad was fraudulent.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Olog-hai.

...the Guardian Council would consider barring Hassan Rohani for revealing what it said was classified information on Iran’s nuclear program in a televised presidential debate and for some slogans chanted by his supporters during rallies.