Elections in Iran are controlled. All candidates are vetted by the regime.

By Ted Belman

Iranian women show their identification, as they queue in a polling station to vote for the parliamentary and Experts Assembly elections in Qom, 125 kilometers (78 miles) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Feb. 26, 2016.

Haaretz reports Early Results in Iran Elections: Reformists Heading for Biggest Win Since 2004, but there is nothing to celebrate.

Bloomberg reported three days ago:

Beginning in January, the regime’s Guardian Council began purging any candidates who espoused the slightest deviation from the country’s septuagenarian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Candidates who favored releasing political prisoners — including the leaders of the Green Movement that many Iranians feel won the 2009 presidential elections — were disqualified. Even members of the Assembly of Experts, who had previously passed the vetting process, were disqualified. So too was the grandson of Iran’s first supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. To paraphrase a former top U.S. negotiator in the Iran talks, Wendy Sherman, Iranians on Friday will have a choice between hardliners and hard hardliners.

Just like in other totalitarian states, all candidates of elections must be approved by the regime.

February 27, 2016 | 2 Comments »

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  1. discussing irans elections is meaningless.. the ayatollahs run the show… thats all we need to know until they are gone.

  2. These Muslim gals are wearing lipstick and mascara, which are emblematic of decadent infidel culture. So they cast their ballots immediately prior to being stoned to death as whores? Do they at least get to watch the election returns on MSNBC? That way, they experience the ecstasy universally associated with visualizing Andrea Mitchell’s gorgeous face as the rocks repeatedly slam into their heads.