You're looking at the wrong Iranian election fix


The Iranian President is the distraction, not the game
I have a thunderstorm on the horizon, which means I'm probably not going to get more than one post in today. So it had better be an important one.

So I say again, you're looking at the wrong Iranian election fix.

That was the whole point. No matter which candidate won, the fix was always going to be in.

See, the Iranian president is a figurehead, about two steps down the ladder from the real executive power.

First you have the Supreme Leader. Besides having the final say on everything the government does, he's also the one who picks the candidates for office.

Then there is the Council of Guardians. They make sure that the government acts within Islamic law, and they approve the elections.

The Iranians never had a choice of candidates. And yet they are calling for a new election with the Supreme Leader choosing who will run.

My take is that the Iranian people aren't quite ready to deal with democracy yet. If they were, they'd be demanding a secular government. These protests are important, but it's a long way from freedom.

Oh, one other thing that is seldom noticed.

When the Iranian president meets with the head of state for another nation, it's a calculated and deliberate insult. From an Iranian viewpoint, any foreign leader who meets the President of Iran is not worthy of respect and is certainly not worth the attention of the Supreme Leader. Just asking automatically makes any other nation subservient to Iran and to Islam.

I'm pretty sure that the news never told you that. It's true though. The Iranian system has been crafted to shame most Western governments, but you have to have studied Islam to understand that.

And if you and your various government officials don't understand, then that pretty much proves their point, doesn't it?

The scary thing is that if someone like me with just a few books and internet access can figure that out, there ought to be somebody in the State Department that can do the same.

Unless the system is geared to eliminate anyone who protests the "conventional wisdom" and accepted ways to deal with the Middle East.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Wed - June 17, 2009 at 01:59 PM  Tag


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