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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Hope he stays alive

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Dude, Khatami and Rouhani are still alive, what the everliving blaze are you on about?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media's relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but...wait, I won't they're horrible.

However, Iran's theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it's better by default?

Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there's that caveat as well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

True. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha.

But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it

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