Posted on 04/09/2021 6:57:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After years of struggle, Iranians finally gained the right to vote. Their first election was held in August 1906. However, one of the complaints Iranians had about the Pahlavi regime was that was the king would decide who would become prime minister or designated candidates for important government positions. After the Shah's fall in 1979, the Islamic Republic increased this election engineering. Iranians now call them "magical elections." This year, though, Iranians are done with magic — and even Biden lifting some sanctions may not help.
Iran will hold a presidential election on June 18, 2021. As always, Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader, using so-called "legal" methods, will pick the head of the Judiciary, the Legislature, and the president. The way this works is that the "Approving Council" filters out the candidates, and then the "Guardian Council" mass eliminates the candidates in favor of the candidate closest to the supreme leader.
In March, Khamenei himself acknowledged in a speech for the Iranian new year that there are complaints about how the Guardian Council operates. He urged Iranians to ignore them. "Our enemies want to destabilize the elections, and for this reason, they accuse the organizers of electoral engineering or accuse the Guardian Council or try to discourage people from voting by inducing the idea of 'people's ineffectiveness.'"
But the main issue in this year's election is something entirely new: the distrust the Iranians feel for the government of Khamenei and President Rouhani has created a gulf too wide to close. Many no longer consider the government legitimate, leading some to think that the situation is ripe for another revolution. This is yet another aspect of how weak the regime is. These are some indicators of that weakness:
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I have hoped, for a very long time, that the mullahs would get the Mussolini treatment. We’ll see if wishes do come true.
No parallels there.....
Like ours
Is this author insane?
Supposedly the country that the world clocks to, the last remaining superpower, freest nation on the planet had elections stolen right in front of our faces.
Does anyone think the mullahs and their acolytes are going to do anything different.
If they lose control of the military something might happen. But look at what the military in Venezuela was doing to the country’s citizens. Running them over with APCs.
Military is with the people.....maybe
Military with the mullahs.....nothing
That the flocks to**
—— Many no longer consider the government legitimate, leading some to think that the situation is ripe for another revolution——
In America many don’t consider the government legitimate, but being apathetic and complacent allow it to continue to take away freedoms
They are like roaches...
White liberal ‘elite’ thugs running DC aspire to the type of control Mullahs have... Like totalitarians thugs the world over they are SURE they’re smarter than ‘the people’...
Disgusting white trash liberal ‘elites’.... pretending to be superior to Iranian thugs...
Dominion machines? It’s in the bag.
No matter his machinations, the decisive factor will be whether the Iranian people are willing to continue with the mullahs’ program. Eventually, they will be so hungry that they will lose their fear of the IRGC.
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I believe growing evidence in the daily news corroborates the assessment that America is moving ever closer to a “have no fear” attitude towards The Fuehrer Pelosi and her fences and troops surrounding the Peoples House.
Indeed, I think January 6 just scared the crap out of Dems which is laughable because just wait until 50,000 armed rednecks (all under 40 and some likely armed) show up in DC madder than hell and looking for their favorite Trump hating Democrat Senator, Representative and/or Presstitute. Jan. 6 was just an Easter egg hunt by comparison. It’s plain to see that Non Rino, anti Uni-Party Republicans have their growing “anti-Marxist/Socialist/Communist/Dictatorial/Democratic Party” attitude in common with the Iranian people!
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