Sounds familiar. Maybe they studied Florida and Ohio.

For the past week or more I have expanded my news-ticker to include 7 items up top and dedicated it exclusively to Iranian coverage, including a permanent link directly to Regime Change Iran.

With all due respect, Astute Blogger, please read the latest from Ledeen or Timmerman. My personal thoughts are that the 'elections' are business as usual for the mullahs. For crying out loud, sir, the candidates were chosen (or rather the non-candidates eliminated) by the 12 member Guardian Council before a ballot was cast. Does it matter what happens today, yesterday or tomorrow insofaras determining a 'rigged' election is concerned?

Please, I beg you to consider the ghostly empty streets around various cities in Iran. Hit the links in my ticker that refer to Dr. Zin's pictures of 'normally bustling streets' or the translated updates from Iranian students reporting drastically low turnout in Iran.

This 'election' is a staged affair intended to appease the masses in Iran with the act of voting (while the candidates have been hand-picked by the very Regime the voters would choose to eliminate) and to fraudulently display to the world as a legitimizer for a tyrannical and iron fisted dictatorship.

After visiting Will Franklin's account, scoot over to Robert Mayer's and read his interview of an Iranian 'poll monitor' in Tucson.

Don't you be fooled, too. That would be profoundly disappointing to a very regular reader (if a very infrequent commenter).

The difference between the Iranian people and the American Democrats is that the Iranians have a legitimate beef...and state their case at risk of imprisonment and real torture (not to be confused with the shivering and sweating varieties of 'torture' to be found at Gitmo).

Your skepticism is way off the mark, sir.

I hope you come to see that, as I respect your writing and views...just not this one.

The Iranian election is just a facade and sham for the MSM, the liberal left, and our Euro Weenie allies. The outcome of this election is already predetermined. Good PR though to make it look like a close race. Gives a sense of legitimacy that doesn't exist in reality.

There are many parallels to the World of the 1930's with the rise of the Third Reich and appeasement of tryants in hopes they would go away. Appeasement doesn't work with tryants.

See my previous comment over at In From the Cold

DITTO!

Now's the time for all Americans to either stand up for what is right or shut up and get off the stage and quit whinning about GITMO.

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Dr Zin [www.regimechangeiran.com] and the SMCCDI can use everyone's help NOW!

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http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/06/irans_election.html

WHY IS ALL THIS ELECTORAL STEALING ALWAYS DONE BY THE LEFT?

socialists/lefties are elitists with a basic disdain for the people/democracy. so they think stealing the election serves a higher good.

(Remember: Iran is a socialist state. Baathism is a socialist ideology.)

and they tried to steal ohio.

This is not exactly insight.

Partisanship aside, this is juat a really lame joke.

his so-called "moderation" a ruse.

the mullahs want a runoff between rafsanjani and the tehran mayor so that rafsnajani will win big -like the current STOOGE currently in office.

this way - the mullahs think - they CO-OPT the reform movement. and increase the apathy of the real anti-mullah movement.