“The massive turnout and energetic participation of overwhelmingly young people in this election, as sited by world media outlets, showed that the new round of United Nations Security Council sanctions and massive U.S. anti-Iran propaganda beamed at the youth of Iran, especially the wealthy strata in northern Tehran and other metropolitan centers, did not affect the nation’s clarity of purpose.” From Iran’s Parliamentary Elections by Ardeshir Ommani, posted on a progressive Australian electronic media, www.mathaba.net on March 16, 2008.
Can Mr. Bani Sadr prove that his position is different from the U.S. State Department’s mouthpiece Sean McCormack, who said, “…in essence the results [of the Iranian elections] are cooked.”? The facts show that Mr. McCormack along with Mr. Bani Sadr, either woefully ignore the statistical data that for 290 Parliamentary seats the Iranian people had more than 4,500 candidates to choose from, that is, over 16.2 candidates per seat, or intentionally misrepresent the reality. In the long run, such politics of a segment of the opposition to the Islamic Republic proves to be ineffective, and in the last analysis, bankrupt.
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