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mercoledì, giugno 29, 2005
E' caduta la maschera. One man, one vote all'iraniana:
THE RECENT Iranian presidential elections were a triumph for the principle of one man, one vote. And the man with the vote this time, as always, was the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. There is, however, one important difference between this Iranian election and previous polls. It confirms the change in strategic direction decided on by Ayatollah Khamenei and his allies in the past 18 months or so, and apparent in their conduct of the 2004 parliamentary elections. That poll was every much an exercise in chicanery as last week’s election, with huge numbers of candidates excluded even from consideration and comprehensive result- rigging. But what was significant, and different, about both these elections was the Iranian regime’s decision to abandon their previous policy of fundamentalism with a human face and replace it with something altogether more uncompromising. Dove andranno a nascondersi adesso i diplomatici europei orfani della gonna di Khatami? Not only did Iran pay no price for this behaviour, it continued to enjoy the EU’s flattering attentions, not least because European leaders were desperate to show that their softly-softly negotiation could be more successful in the Middle East than American “bellicosity”. The biggest victims of this process have been the democratic Iranian opposition, who have been rewarded for their bravery in standing up to fundamentalism by seeing their oppressors indulged by the EU. La carriera di Ahmadinejad. La soddisfazione di Chávez. |
A Fabio.
A Luisa.   
  Asia e dintorni Normblog |
