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| Rafsanjani has lost Iran election: close aide (Hardliner wins) |
| 2005-06-24 |
| Moderate Iranian cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has lost a presidential election run-off against ultra-hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinenjad, a close aide to Rafsanjani conceded to AFP Saturday. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #12 "And in a shocking turnaround surprise, the winner appears to be... Mullah Tweedledee! Congrats, Mr. President! Thanks for playing, folks." |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-06-24 23:44 |
| #11 I'm shocked! Where's "jimmy (by god) carter" when you need him? |
| Posted by: Tom Dooley 2005-06-24 22:23 |
| #10 "Rafsanjani, Ahmadinenjad, what's the damned difference ?" Rafsanjani is easier to pronounce ? |
| Posted by: buwaya 2005-06-24 21:48 |
| #9 Calling Rafsanjani a "moderate" is like looking at Stalin and Trotsky and calling Uncle Joe the moderate because he wasn't pushing the "permanent revolution". Not that I don't think that Joe wouldn't have gotten an ice pick to the back of the skull if Trotsky had managed to win the power struggle... At least we won't have the useful idiots going on about how Ahmadinenjad was legitimately elected and thus untouchable. At least, I hope we won't... never can tell with the objective pro-fascists. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2005-06-24 21:29 |
| #8 This was a sham run-off. In truth, it all falls to the moolah behind the curtain. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-06-24 21:21 |
| #7 I wonder if Rafsanjani will be asking for any recounts. Protests about the Illegal Iraqi's allowed to vote. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-06-24 21:02 |
| #6 Have we heard from James Earl Carter yet? |
| Posted by: eLarson 2005-06-24 20:50 |
| #5 maybe this'll get the Iranian people to mount another "revolution" . . . but I doubt it. the only "people's revolution" acceptable are the ones approved by the mullahs. like the one in 1979. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2005-06-24 20:19 |
| #4 Rafsanjani, Ahmadinenjad, what's the damned difference? |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-24 20:17 |
| #3 The BBC is saying that Mahmood is ahead also. Charges of election fraud are flying, which, since the whole election is a fraud, is a bit of a joke. Thermidor has arrived. |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2005-06-24 19:18 |
| #2 Credit the mullahs for making it close. Gives the appearance of an actual election. Somebody's been watching WWF. |
| Posted by: BH 2005-06-24 19:17 |
| #1 Makes you wonder why the mullahs didn't just cut to the chase andname him "president" in the first place. They're not fooling anyone. Except the EUroCrats and the moonbats. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-24 19:14 |