Majles Elections Campaign Begins

3,444 vetted candidates are vying for the 290 seats

AFP: Campaigning began in Iran on Thursday for parliamentary elections to take place on March 2, with officials and state media calling for a big turnout to counter "enemies' threats" against the regime. It will be the Islamic republic's first national poll since the controversial 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A total of 3,444 vetted candidates are vying for the 290 seats in the parliament, known as the Majlis, to be decided by an electorate of 48 million voters >>>


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This Circus of "Elections", IRI style, used to be amusing to....

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watch. But ,now it is simply boring us to death. Even the "fundamentalist Reformists" (yea, I know, makes no sense, just quoting) wing of the Islamist regime's political establishment are asking for it's bycott. 

That would only leave " Ali leader",  a few thousand of his sandis khors and few million rural poor  who must vote to get badly needed government handouts, as participants of this not so funny circus act. 

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."