Local Vote Embarrassing Iran President

[mogster]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad suffered an embarrassing blow in local council races, according to partial election results Monday, in voting viewed as a sign of public discontent with his hard-line stance.

The balloting represented a partial comeback for opponents of Ahmadinejad, whose Islamic government's policies have fueled fights with the West and brought Iran closer to U.N. sanctions.

Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, a relative moderate, polled the most votes of any Tehran candidate to win re-election to a key assembly post.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Iran-Elections.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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Getting back Rafsanjani is like recycling yesterdays news as fish'n'chip paper, but hey - Ahmadinejad lost a lot of cred points on the David Duke show, and has ended up looking more and more like Bush; a second generation neoconservative with mush for brains, doing what he can to look silly. Because:

"The biggest victory was for ''moderate conservatives,'' supporters of Iran's cleric-led power structure who are angry at Ahmadinejad, saying he has needlessly provoked the West with harsh rhetoric and has failed to fix the country's faltering economy."

Ahem. Does this sound familiar? ;-)
And the 'moderate conservatives' are probably like the US 'moderate' repubs now playing opportunists in the lib field while still clinging to the US clerics.



Better put them on, George. The bells are ringing for you and your chums.