Iran’s elections: conservatives and hardliners dominate

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Iran’s elections: conservatives and hardliners dominate Mon. 3 Jan 2005



Iran Focus Analysis

Tehran, Jan. 03 – Candidates set to stand in Iran’s June 17th presidential elections are seen by many Iran experts as right-wing extremists loyal to hardline Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with many calling the reformist movement a “dead movement”.

Some of the Iranian regime’s top figures, including former heads of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), have announced that they would be running to become president. The IRGC, the Iranian regime’s ideological army, and its Qods (Jerusalem) Force are tasked with “liberating Jerusalem through Baghdad”. They are used by the clerical state to suppress any social unrest.

One of the candidates, Mohsen Rezai, is the former head of the IRGC and is seen by many as an ultra-right figure who would act only on Khamenei’s orders. It is widely believed that



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Wow this is like the American Election ...pinch me are we in Iran or Georgia???
And I thought the CIA was making Iran go liberal too!!! Something tells me this does not bode well for Iraq war!!! And Nuclear disarmament!!!

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1. The Headline Sounds Like The U.S. Political Scene