Guardian Council Approves Postponement of Town and County Local Elections
Source: Azarmehr Blog
July 14, 2010
Prior to last year’s fraudulent elections in Iran, the regime apologists would go out of their way to say the regime in Iran is a popular one and those who oppose the regime are just a few counter-revolutionary disgruntled exiled ex-pats. After the massive protests in the aftermath of last year’s election fraud and thanks to the courage and initiative of Iran’s citizen journalists, this was no longer a realistic tenable position by the apologists and the ‘useful idiots’. The world saw clearly the extent of the opposition to the regime and the brutal crackdown that followed.
Hence the ‘useful idiots’ and apologists, aware of the desires of the self hating rich kids in the European Left to endear themselves to the working classes, even though the vast majority of them are not remotely working class themselves, came up with the notion that the protests in Iran are carried out by Iran’s affluent North Tehran kids and not supported by the working classes. They argued that Ahamdinejad was supported by the poor and the working classes and enjoyed large support outside Tehran and in the provinces and the country side. An argument that appealed to some of the European Left who were shocked at how wrong they may have been in their assessment of a popular regime in Iran.
Of course we know how large the protests were and of course we know Tehran does not have that many affluent kids and in fact the affluent kids largely stayed away from the protests, but without an independent poll, how could one argue against this nonsense?
I tried to argue against this on Aljazeera once as best as I could:
Aljazeera on Rural Support for Ahamdinejad
but as always it is best to wait for the regime to shoot itself in the foot and provide the evidence, even though sadly for most of the Western media this was not sensational enough news to report. The Town and County local elections which were due to take place this year have been postponed to be held simultaneously with the next presidential (s)elections and today the Guardian Council approved this! So if Ahmadinejad enjoys so much support in the provinces and the rural areas, why were these elections postponed. Surely it would have been a good opportunity for the regime to show how popular it is and that it is able to hold these elections without much fuss.
To postpone these elections are totally unconstitutional. After all when you vote for your representatives, you trust them to represent you for a limited period that was agreed at the time. So lets wait and hear what spin the ‘useful idiots’ put on this now?
