Hardline anti-West candidate in STUNNING Iran presidential win

[Bluebear]

Hmmm, the "religious poor" won it for him. Sounds familiar.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Hardline Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad swept toward a stunning presidential election victory over veteran cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Saturday with the backing of Iran's religious poor, officials said.

Political analysts say a win for Ahmadinejad, 48, could spell an end to fragile social reforms made under outgoing President
Mohammad Khatami and harden Iran's foreign policy toward the West, particularly over its nuclear program.

An official at the Islamic Republic's Guardian Council, which must approve the election results, said that with 13.3 million votes counted, Ahmadinejad had secured 61.6 percent...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050624/ts_nm/iran_election_dc_105;_ylt=AuBIthD8liHY_NMVSLPKN_JSw60A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[geek tragedy]

1. Let the riots and revolution begin. nt

[Warpy]

8. Like hell!

They elected this hard line sack of crap precisely because Bush has them terrified that they're next on the invasion list, and they most likely are next.

This is just another example of how a stressed population will always rally around the WORST leaders in time of crisis. All you have to do is scare them sufficiently, and they'll look for the biggest bullies to put into power.

Remember this every time Bush tries to push another country around. He's getting hardliners into power and getting the US isolated.

We will NOT be on the winning side in the next big war.

[wakeme2008]

2. As the Iranian said the other day "Thank You George Bush" nt

[Bluebear]

5. Indeed. Bigmouth really helped them out didn't he?

[politicaholic]

3. Shudder....

:scared:

"harden Iran's foreign policy toward the West, particularly over its nuclear program."

That's just fantastic. I'm so glad we have such adept diplomats in power right now. :sarcasm:

[kenny blankenship]

4. Wow, the Bush Doctrine of preemptively killing Muslims

is paying dividends all over the globe! Iraq is turning into Somalia. And now Iran elects a conservative opposed to democratizing reforms.
Freedumb is certainly on the march.

[Gloria]

6. Yeah, but now Bush can have his war this summer......

I'm afraid that Bushco will now regain their "mission" and poll ratings as they go toe to toe with Iran....

SHIT

[Gloria]

7. IRAN’S NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY SEEN AT STAKE IN RUN-OFF

Analysis posted last night to the current World Media Watch....

Read the rest of the article...this guy is the Howard Dean of Iran....he minces no words with regard to the US and nukes....



1//IranMania, UK Thursday, June 23, 2005

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?ArchiveNews=Yes&NewsCode=32836&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs



IRAN’S NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY SEEN AT STAKE IN RUN-OFF



LONDON, June 23 (IranMania) - A victory in Iran's presidential run-off by hardliner Mahmood Ahmadinejad would remove a moderating influence from within the regime and could put the Islamic republic on a collision course with the West, diplomats and analysts said.



Seen as being most at stake is Iran's relatively pragmatic approach in diplomacy over its nuclear programme, which Iran maintains is for peaceful purposes but is seen by many as the cover for weapons development.



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"It is extremely important to understand that what is at stake is this process concerning dangerous nuclear materials," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy cautioned after Ahmadinejad was thrust into a shock run-off against Rafsanjani.



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But a loss by the regime veteran could see both him and Iran's nuclear negotiators, including Rafsanjani loyalists such as Hassan Rowhani, squeezed out amid a wider political shift to the right.



According to Ahmadinejad, currently Tehran's mayor, "those who are handling the talks are terrified, and before they even sit down at the negotiating table they retreat 500 kilometres."

"A popular and fundamentalist government," he added, "will quickly change that."



An Ahmadinejad win would also place every Iranian elected and non-elected institution under the control of Iran's anti-Western religious right, ending what has up to now been a delicate equilibrium in decision making between moderates and hardliners.

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[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Those durn "unexpected consequences" again.

Just like the missing flowers from the missing jubilant crowds and the missing love of Amurka in Iraq.

Don't want them troops out of there. No siree, we gotta "stay the course", "complete the mission", "send a message", and all that "decisiveness" that worked so well in Vietnam.

[Cocoa]

10. is that photo from the Iran elections?

are they mocking the "purple fingers" hype?

[PATRICK]

11. US outmaneuvered by the

arrogance of the Bush team. As, for example, the presumption they could buy and bully the newly religious leaning government of Turkey to take a lot of flak in the Iraq war it backfired. Reason would have it that the judicious backing of dissident parties would create a Ukraine style muck, but one that would split wide the fruit for armed intervention.

Their arrogance is so total that in pursuit of this careful goal they did not care about consequences. In the end they expect American might to triumph and just harrumph that these "poor fools" want to resist instead of joining the new American gravy train.

So inwardly despicable are the American war criminals that they simply cannot stand any form of patriotism or integrity among their natural victims, i.e. anyone weaker or poorer than the White American Hegemony.(WAH for short). Did anyone lose their job was any war stopped by their personal failures(embassies of Cheney trolls to Turkey, Powell to UN)? Did the French ever jump on board despite a long history of their own arrogance and diplomatic smarts? Sneering fools in the RW expected the weaklings to submit to the Great American Scream(GAS for short).

Now a whole operation of subverting an election to "build democracy" lies in just ruins not because it was doomed but because in lazy arrogance it was haughtily misplayed. Rice is guilty as any buffoon of talking down to people who have a great deal of power to make life miserable for the US.

But hey, it's only American infantry dying for these faux pas. The show goes on. Bushco shrugs at the cost of incompetence at the impertinence of their victims. So far. After all, what neocon except possibly the journalist Michael Kelly has died on the field for the PNAC dream?