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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential election
(www.theguardian.com)
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Hope he stays alive
Dude, Khatami and Rouhani are still alive, what the everliving blaze are you on about?
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.
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