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Iran’s President Suffers Election Rout

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Posted on Dec 18, 2006
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to have suffered his first major political setback, as early results from last week’s election start to come in. Ahmadinejad’s Sweet Scent of Service coalition won only three of Tehran’s 15 city council seats, while reformists and moderate conservatives enjoyed electoral success nationwide.

Guardian:

The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, faced electoral embarrassment [Monday] after the apparent failure of his supporters to win control of key local councils and block the political comeback of his most powerful opponent.

Early results from last Friday’s election suggested that his Sweet Scent of Service coalition had won just three out of 15 seats on the symbolically important Tehran city council, foiling Mr. Ahmadinejad’s plan to oust the mayor and replace him with an ally.

The outcome appeared to be mirrored elsewhere, with councils throughout Iran returning a majority of reformists and moderate fundamentalists opposed to Mr. Ahmadinejad.

Compounding his setback was the success of Hashemi Rafsanjani, an influential pragmatist and fierce critic of the president’s radical policies. Mr. Rafsanjani—whom Mr. Ahmadinejad defeated in last year’s presidential election—received the most votes in elections to the experts’ assembly, a clerical body empowered to appoint and remove Iran’s supreme leader. By contrast, Ayatollah Mohammed Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, Mr. Ahmadinejad’s presumed spiritual mentor, came sixth.

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By HeadlessHessian, December 19, 2006 at 10:29 am #
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Don’t count chickens until the eggs...etc.
Remember...votes still need to be ‘counted’...and results ‘authenticated’…
Hang in there...this guy is no newbie..Just like the shrub...he may steal an election. 
Hope I’m wrong!

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By Quy Tran, December 18, 2006 at 6:47 pm #
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If he wanted to reverse the election results he must borrow Karl Rove from King George because Rove has magic hands even black and dirty magic !

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By Quy Tran, December 18, 2006 at 6:44 pm #
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He needs a brake from within !

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By Tony Wicher, December 18, 2006 at 2:45 pm #
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This is good news! Ahmedinejad was due for a comeuppance. He was conducting a very successful publicity campaign highlighed by such events as his meeting with the Naturae Karta and the two Letters to Americans, the first to President Bush and the next to the American People. I was impressed up to that point. But then he went and betrayed his provincial Islamic education by sponsoring a Holocaust Denial conference where all the usual slime showed up happy for the publicity and got a big stain on his Ahmadinerjacket. Zionists were jubilant. Now he has lost in local elections. Sic transit gloria mundi. Perhaps he has learned a lesson.

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