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2005-06-24 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Rafsanjani has lost Iran election: close aide (Hardliner wins)

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Posted by phil_b 2005-06-24 18:52|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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">Barbara Skolaut 2005-06-24 19:14|| http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com]">[http://www.ariellestjohndesigns.com] 2005-06-24 19:14|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-24 19:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-24 19:18|| Front Page Top

#4 Rafsanjani, Ahmadinenjad, what's the damned difference?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-24 20:17|| 2005-06-24 20:17|| Front Page Top

#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">PlanetDan 2005-06-24 20:19|| 2005-06-24 20:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Have we heard from James Earl Carter yet?

Posted by eLarson 2005-06-24 20:50|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-06-24 20:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-24 21:02|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2005-06-24 21:21|| Front Page Top

#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.">Mitch H. 2005-06-24 21:29|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2005-06-24 21:29|| Front Page Top

#10 "Rafsanjani, Ahmadinenjad, what's the damned difference ?"

Rafsanjani is easier to pronounce ?

Posted by buwaya 2005-06-24 21:48|| 2005-06-24 21:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm shocked! Where's "jimmy (by god) carter" when you need him?

Posted by Tom Dooley 2005-06-24 22:23|| 2005-06-24 22:23|| Front Page Top

#12 "And in a shocking turnaround surprise, the winner appears to be... Mullah Tweedledee!

Congrats, Mr. President!

Thanks for playing, folks."

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-06-24 23:44|| 2005-06-24 23:44|| Front Page Top

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