dianavan - 17 Feb 07 - 07:38 PM

"I do, however, support the right of Iranians to freely elect whoever they choose."

Then its high time that they were actually given a chance to do just that isn't it dianavan. The 12 Old Gits, who do actually run Iran, remember the clown who has declared that he wants Israel "wiped off the map" rules entirely at their pleasure, they banned over 6000 opposition candidates from standing at the last election. Does that happen in the Canada or the US dianavan? I know that Kevin (MGOH) counts the Iranian elections as beng valid even in spite of this anomoly, I sure as hell wouldn't.

Over the past two years there has been suppression of Shia Arabs in the SW of Iran, there were terrorist attacks against the Government in Tehran, we now see similar attacks in the SE of the country. None of this is at the instigation of the US, unlike Hamas and Hezbollah attacks in Lebanon, Palestine and Israel. The sooner the reign of the 12 Old Gits is over in Iran the better, the world will be a far better place.