Phony Iranian election process.
The Associated Press reports on the Iranian election process.
Iran’s Interior Ministry began screening some 8,200 prospective candidates Sunday for February legislative elections, state-run Tehran radio reported.
The list of candidates approved by the ministry must be ratified by the hard-line Guardian Council, however, and, in the past, the council has disqualified those seen as opposing the absolute rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Reformers, who have long sought social and political change in Iran, fear the council may disqualify many of their candidates.
(*) The very fact that candidates must be vetted by the existing government is reason enough to term these elections unfree and phony.
How would it sound if George W Bush had the power to disallow Howard Dean from running against him? Not good.