Article Contributed on: 6/17/2009 11:12:36 AM
Far-out Farce in Farsi?
Is Iranian dictatorship finally "twittering on the brink", or like in so many dictatorships,is it impossible to fight the dark side of a police state who hold all the guns and government power?
Doesn't anyone in Iran think of making a sign that says "Down with the Shah". Maybe they don't want to be beaten and killed.
A-mad-din-a-jihad may have actually won (51% to 49% or so), but within 2 hours of the election had "counted all the ballots in a large country with millions of voters" and brought him in by a landslide. He didn't want the votes close enough so that he would be forced into a runoff. Wouldn't it be nice if your county, or your state, or your federal election could be counted, and affirmed in less than 2 hours?
Good thing that none of the dictators bureaucrats goofed and called the election before the votes were in. Of course, all the strings are pulled by those fine, religious clerics who actually run the country. I am told that there isn't an Imam in Iran who is worth less than $1 million dollars. As the money clinks in their cash registers, do they all shout: Allahu Akhbar! (God is Great)?
Your Reporter,
Delmar