schizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 days agoReformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential electionwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down12 cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zipworld@lemmy.world
arrow-up1115arrow-down1external-linkReformist Masoud Pezeshkian wins Iran presidential electionwww.theguardian.comschizoidman@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square16fedilink cross-posted to: globalnews@lemmy.zipworld@lemmy.world
minus-squarecircuscritic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up24arrow-down1·edit-214 days agoIt’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda. Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible. However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default? Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.
minus-squarepostgeographix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·edit-214 days agoTrue. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha. But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it
It’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.
Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible.
However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default?
Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.
True. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha.
But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it