The Incredibly Complicit Fellow Travelors At The NY Times On The Iranian "Elections"...

[Selene]

BREAKING NEWS Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:04 PM EDT

Hasan Rowhani, a Moderate Candidate, Declared Winner of Iran’s Presidential Vote

In a striking repudiation of the ultra-conservatives who wield power in Iran, Iranian voters overwhelmingly elected a mild-mannered cleric seeking greater personal freedoms for the public and a more conciliatory approach with the world. Iran’s interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, announced that Hassan Rowhani, 64, had more than 50 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff in the race to succeed the outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose tenure was defined largely by provocation with the west and a seriously hobbled economy at home. The hardline conservatives aligned with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei placed at the back of the pack of six candidates, indicating that Iranian’s were looking to their next president to change the tone, if not the direction of the nation, by choosing a cleric who served as the lead nuclear negotiator under reformist Mohammad Khatami. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/middleeast/iran-election.html?emc=edit_na_20130615

Moderate...!! Ah, I see he just wants to kill us more slowly...

[PDS]

All things in moderation, I say.

Except moderation.

[BaalChatzaf]

BREAKING NEWS Saturday, June 15, 2013 12:04 PM EDT

Hasan Rowhani, a Moderate Candidate, Declared Winner of Iran’s Presidential Vote

In a striking repudiation of the ultra-conservatives who wield power in Iran, Iranian voters overwhelmingly elected a mild-mannered cleric seeking greater personal freedoms for the public and a more conciliatory approach with the world. Iran’s interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, announced that Hassan Rowhani, 64, had more than 50 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a runoff in the race to succeed the outgoing president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose tenure was defined largely by provocation with the west and a seriously hobbled economy at home. The hardline conservatives aligned with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei placed at the back of the pack of six candidates, indicating that Iranian’s were looking to their next president to change the tone, if not the direction of the nation, by choosing a cleric who served as the lead nuclear negotiator under reformist Mohammad Khatami. READ MORE » http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/world/middleeast/iran-election.html?emc=edit_na_20130615

Moderate...!! Ah, I see he just wants to kill us more slowly...

If you want to see "moderation" see how the Iranian Shi'ites commemorate the death of Hassan Ali. They go down the streets in their hundreds and thousands flagellating themselves till they bleed and their flesh hangs in tatters.

[Selene]

If you want to see "moderation" see how the Iranian Shi'ites commemorate the death of Hassan Ali. They go down the streets in their hundreds and thousands flagellating themselves till they bleed and their flesh hangs in tatters.

Damn, excessive BDSM!

[Richard Wiig]

It's just the kind of thing you're likely to see on a street in Sydney.

[Jerry Biggers]

Adam, you are so cynical!

I suppose you didn't buy the MSM description of Yuri Andropov as the new leader of the Soviet Union, (after Secretary Breshnev assumed room temperature), as a "moderate." Just because Andropov had just completed 15 years as the head of the K.G.B., you probably held that against him.

Going back further, you probably didn't believe the MSM when they described Fidel Castro, after he overthrew the Batista regime, as a "moderate," and (certainly not a communist)!

Jumping up to the present, you probably didn't believe that the former head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, was anything but a "moderate."