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Re: Millionaire mullahs

Yoshie wrote: 
We have to acknowledge that those who
say things like Nader can't easily get on ballots here, and American
voters don't vote for them either when they do.  Iran is very
different from the USA, or rather the USA is very different from much
of the rest of the world.


Well, there is a Supreme Council in Iran that decides who can run or not.
Reform candidates routinely get blocked because they don't satisfy criteria
that is defined nowhere. It is totally the whim of these idiots in robes.
Evidently people like Ahmadinejad past muster.

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