I thought this article was rather interesting. It talks about the small changes that happened throughout the election(televised debates, open criticism of Ahmadinejad, etc), and how it's slowly leading up towards more transparency and slowly inching towards democracy. It also talked about some of the red flags that had gone up during the election. None of the candidates were willing to question some of the regime's policies, such as the uranium enrichment program, the economic impact of sanctions or the unlimited power of the supreme leader.
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This article reminded me some what of the Control Room movie we watched. It pretty much gave us a behind the scenes look at what was really going on, on Iraq's television network Aljazeera. Even though the Iranian's haven't given us much in televised debates and what not, its still a start and heading in the right direction. The willingness to open up will probably come in time, but for now this is the better than what we had been getting, and that was nothing.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this article because it gave me new insight into the 2009 Iranian presidential election. I didn't realize the Ayatollah chooses the presidential candidates until I read this article. No wonder opposition groups decided to boycott the election, even though I don't know what that was supposed to prove. Unless you can get every single person in your country to boycott a vote you won't accomplish what you want to. I understand though that they were trying to make a point.
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