Political friction adds heat to Majles elections

First major voting since disputed 2009 re-election of Ahmadinejad

AP — Iran's hard-liners have been so effective at crushing the opposition, they now are left brawling among themselves. That's the messy political scramble in this week's parliamentary elections — the first major voting since the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 and the mass protests, chaos and crackdowns that followed. The ballots cast Friday amount to a popularity contest among various conservative factions, which were once united against reformists and are now sniping at each other and picking sides in the power struggle between Ahmadinejad and his opponents within the ruling Islamic theocracy >>>


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مآمور

 آقا یا خانم

مآمور
Wed Feb 29, 2012 09:02 PM PST

 آقا یا خانم عزیز گویا شما کامنت من را درست نخواندید! حرفی از ۵۰٪ روستایی نیست! ۱/۳ مردم در روستاها و شهرهای کوچک زندگی میکنند(کم و بیش) حرفی بود که من نوشتم. در ادامه اضافه کرده ام که این گروه از ایرانیها همه رای خواهند داد. حالا کاندید رهبر یا منخب جبهه پایداری یا اطلأ لیست زیر میزی خاتمی با علی مطهری!!!!! چه فرقی میکند در درصد آرا؟؟ گفتم درصد یاد تذکر شما در مورد جغرافیا افتادم! میگم اگر جغرافی نشه در آمریکا یاد گرفت شاید بشود کمی آمار یاد گرفت!!!
ساعت کاسیو ذارای توانایهای بسیار است. هر چند قیمت آن از ساعت امگا بسیار کمتر است ولی چون توان محاسبه با سرعت نسبتأ بالای دارد از طرف آژانسهای اطلاعاتی توصیه به ماموران که درگیر ساندیس خوری هستند میشود.
البته ساندیس انواع مختلف دارد. ایرانی  اسراییلی حتی روسی و چنینی!!!!! من ساندیس ایرانی مینوشم شما چی میل دارید؟

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Mardom Mazloom

ماموره جون؛

Mardom Mazloom
Wed Feb 29, 2012 06:43 AM PST

من روستایهای ایران را ساندیس خور خطاب نکردم. د; باز حرف نزده رو مثل حسین بازجو نذار تو دهن مردم.

۱- تو امریکا که جغرافیای ایران رو نمیتونی یاد بگیری، ماموره جون! ۵۰% مردم ایران تو روستا ها زندگی نمیکند! بعد تازه:
۲- در انتخابات مهندسی شده قبل؛ خیلی از روستا یا به موسوی رای داده بودند حتا در روستاهای کوچک کم تر از ۱۰۰۰ نفر؛ پس حالا اگر بگی همشون میرند به نماینده های رهبر رای میدن درست نیست.
۳- ساندیس خور اونیه که برای خرج زندگی تو خارج، یا همون ساندیس تو ایران؛ از خون مردمش بگذره و به هر قیمت از جمهوری شیطانی دفاع کنه.

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مآمور

 عزیز دل آن

مآمور
Wed Feb 29, 2012 05:52 AM PST

 عزیز دل آن مردم فقیر و روسثایی که شما آنها را ساندیس خور نامیدید هم جزة مردم ایران هستند و میباستی(البته با اجازه شما عزیزان روشنفکر و دموکراسی خواه) حق ای داشته باشند.

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Mardom Mazloom

ماموره جان،

Mardom Mazloom
Wed Feb 29, 2012 04:56 AM PST

Has the regime already prepared the clips and videos to show the world this massive participation of "60-65" sandiss khors in loop for the elections?

I bet, yes !

What is good in "Jomhoori Sheytani" is that these election stuffs, from the percentage of voters, the results, etc... are all predictible in advance.  

 


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مآمور

The iranian population

by مآمور on Tue Feb 28, 2012 08:27 PM PST

The iranian population combines of 1/3 living in small towns and villages and the rest in 10 major urban(just rough est). the first 1/3 will vote no matter what!! they tend to vote on ethnic, tribe, family line. their politic is who can get them more. so we got a good 33-40% and I tell u, they all vote like everybody!!!

the rest 55-60% who reside in major urbans are also divided in 2 demographic groups, 1- those who modernaised and got educations and more likely this time around they will not vote, however among this group one can see many religious goverment employees, they will vote.

2- the second group of big cities residents who doesnt live in the cities themselves but rather in small towns and developments in the outskirt . they still have close families in those small cities and villiages and many of them go back there to vote along with their families.

60-65% turn out is what would be very predictable in this election.

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Abarmard

Election and democracy

by Abarmard on Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:46 PM PST

Unfortunately unlike most developed nations, Iran lacks a proper political infrastructure to unite the population in demanding freedom and democracy.

The call for open society is focused on more educated and worldly sect of the population. Most of the candidates from smaller towns and villages are just there to do what one of the interviewee mentioned, to build pipes for clean water, provide better schools, or things in that nature.

One of the most important reasons for this divide is lack of political parties and needs of society. The individual in Minab or Hormozgan region may not care one bit about freedom or democracy while she is deprived of basic needs to survive. Therefore they don't send a representative who is in line with ideas of democracy but those who they may think can push for better economic position of their region.

Once those get in to the parliament, those representatives align themselves with whoever has the most power regardless of the ideologies or political affiliations.

Based on this situation, the system hopes that conservatives who are well trusted are elected in larger cities and everything else will fall into place. To fool the public that there are diverse groups running, many conservatives run under that flag of reformists.

I generally agree to vote but in this specific situation voting is not the best option for Iranians. First by not voting, the West realizes that there is hope in change by the people. Second the system gets the point about its attitude to its population from 2009 election. If people are smart, they stay home this time.


 


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