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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
Will, I don't think that you grasp the basic tenants of the Iranian Revolution, an event that's the basic foundation for their political system.
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We should avoid making statements like this. If I were to say to you, "Jazz, you don't seem to have even the most basic understanding of Iranian government", you'd roll your eyes at my unnecessary condescension. It doesn't add anything to the discussion.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
The clerics on the Council of Guardians (who are the clerics that keep getting mentioned) are not going to allow the nomination of a pro-Western candidate. It is in their best interest politically to make sure that happens since any detente erodes their hold on power.
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No one said anything about Mousavi being "pro-Western", I'm simply suggesting that he's not a hard-line anti-Westerner like Ahmadinejad. That's a big deal to Iran and it's a big deal to us. If he's even somewhere closer to being neutral towards the West than Ahmadinejad, it gives everyone a better chance of coming out of this odd miniature cold war we have with Iran.
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
You seem to be operating under the assumption that any Iranian president is a free piece on the board when that's just not the case.
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You're not reading what I'm posting. I never suggested that the president of Iran is a "free piece on the board", in fact I just said in post 13:
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Originally Posted by Willravel
I know virtually no power lies with the president of Iran...
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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
At best Mousavi can dial down the rhetoric and criticism that flow from Tehran so that constructive process can be made.
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This is almost exactly my point. My hope in all of this is that, should Mousavi (much easier to type than Ahmadinejad) is elected it's possible that things might start to at least head in the right direction instead of the wrong one.