Re: [Marxism] Evidence indicates vote (however it went) was ignored to create fake "landslide" for Khamenei-Ahmadinejad ticket

["Lüko Willms" <lueko.willms@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman (ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 2009-06-14 at 08:13:47 in  
about [Marxism] Evidence indicates vote (however it went) was ignored to 
create fake "landslide" for Khamenei-Ahmadinejad ticket:

  quoting Juan Cole: 
 
> 
> The Iranian women who voted in droves for Khatami haven't gone
> anywhere, and they did not very likely much care for Ahmadinejad's
> stances on women's issues:

   Juan Cole is missing or hiding some important issues in this respect. I know 
two: 

1) Ahmadinedjad made it possible for women to attend football matches 
(football, not the US version of Rugby), but the supreme clerics forced him to 
overturn the opening and to ban women again from football stadiums (BTW, 
women's football is a popular sport in Iran)

>     * Ahmadinejad implemented the Social Safety program, which monitors
> women's clothing, requires the permission from a father or husband for a
> woman to attend school, and applies quotas limiting the number of women
> allowed to attend universities.'


2) the latter is a blatant lie if one does not mention that women represent 
about two thirds of Iran's university students. 

 
   I don't know if the vote was correct or not. 

   Let us just remember the big difference in the reporting about the 
presidential elections in Iran, the "axis of evil" for the imperialist bloc, on 
the 
one hand, and the reporting about the same protests against the latest 
presidential elections in Mexico. 

  I see an imperial interest here in destroying Iran's independence, and I have 
to oppose this attack on Iran, independently if the election had been rigged or 
not. 

  That's why my first word is: Hands off Iran! 



Comradely yours,  
Lüko Willms
Frankfurt, Germany
--------------------------------
visit http://www.mlwerke.de Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotzki in 
German

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