Iranian Drama
The Iranian post-election protests are getting a lot of airtime on western television, but it makes me sceptical as to whether there really were rigged votes. What we see is protests, mainly those living in Tehran complaining about lost votes and about a stolen election, but is this really the case?
Four years ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad decided to run for election and won it with a landslide. Many sceptics had put there money on the opposition, but the people voted him in regardless.
The problem is, the leader of the opposition, a certain Mir-Hossein Mousavi claims that Iran’s spiritual leader, who encompasses the highest role in Iranian politics, personally asked him to draft a victory speech, only to return to the delighted man and tell him that he lost the election, by a landslide.
If this claim is true, it stinks of suspicion.
The way I see it, Iran is split into two fractions, two different generations with there separate ideologies. On the one hand we have the conservatives, ultra religious citizens who strive to be better spiritually. In the opposite end of the ring we have the reformists, young hip Iranians who want to take a step away from the current Iran.
At least, that is what I thought, until I learnt that Mir-Hossein Mousavi was previously the Iranian Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989. I guess this implies that there is no real difference between the two candidates. I really don’t see what all the fuss is about.
2 comments:
I've always wondered what that iconic photo of the Chinese dude standing in front of the tank was about...And thanks to you I now a basepoint to start reading about it :)
I don't really like the Iranian politicians though, I keep hearing about them saying stuff like "Britain is the most evil country in the world", which makes me want to slap them upside their turbans
Haha. Iranians "are peace a kind, loving people" as Ahmedinejad likes to say. There's not much anti-British sentiment in Iran, however there are resedues from the time when Britain imposed a leader on Iran.
Britain invaded Iran, `a land of relative prosperity', in 1918 and as a result Iran lost its independence for the next 60 years, or so say the scholars. The guy in charge turned out to be a dictator and he 'pissed off' much of the Iranian public, leading to an Islamic revolution, which tried to move far away from Britain and the USA. But I don't think theres very much resentment still left in the country.
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