I tend to agree with the Leveretts:
The shock of the “Iran experts” over Friday’s results is entirely self-generated, based on their preferred assumptions and wishful thinking...
Like much of the Western media, most American “Iran experts” overstated Mir Hossein Mousavi’s “surge” over the campaign’s final weeks. More important, they were oblivious — as in 2005 — to Ahmadinejad’s effectiveness as a populist politician and campaigner. American “Iran experts” missed how Ahmadinejad was perceived by most Iranians as having won the nationally televised debates with his three opponents — especially his debate with Mousavi...
The Islamic Republic is a system with multiple power centers; within that system, there is a strong and enduring consensus about core issues of national security and foreign policy, including Iran’s nuclear program and relations with the United States. Any of the four candidates in Friday’s election would have continued the nuclear program as Iran’s president; none would agree to its suspension.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23745_Page2.html#ixzz0IbYnQFTK&C
"The legitimacy of the government is given by God."
- Ayatollah Yazdi
So you and the Ayatollah are on the same page. Congratulations you are now a sympathizer for a terrorist state.
[Congratulations for your straw man argument.]
Posted by: Abraham | July 19, 2009 at 01:11 AM