To: freedom44
"Iranians elect most of their leaders in free and fair elections for the president, parliament and thousands of local village councils."
The above quote is a massive 'lie'.
The President of Iran is vetted by an extremely hard-line group of 12 called the Guardian Council. Therefore, only the most loyal to the Islamists in power can run for presidency.
Mullah Khatami won only because 234 out of the 238 candidates were disqualified.
Otherwise, some of the other parts of the column are correct.
3 posted on
06/20/2003 7:50:40 PM PDT by
freedom44
To: freedom44
That part of the article may not be exactly truthful, but it does have some very good points.
Thank you for the ping!
9 posted on
06/20/2003 10:08:57 PM PDT by
dixiechick2000
(Has anyone seen my tagline?)
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