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.
