What Ahmadinejad's Win Means For Iran, Israel And The U.S.

Newsweek:

"Your people, sir--your people is a great beast!" the American founding father Alexander Hamilton is supposed to have spluttered at a dinner party more than two centuries ago. He was not a fan of popular democracy, much less of what would later be called populism: he deemed the people too emotional, too volatile, too inclined to vote against their own best interests. And there probably are a good number of analysts in Europe and the United States who feel that way about the voters who just returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power in Iran.

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Comments

[Lupin77]

History repeats itself. I see what is going on in Iran and can't help seeing parallels with dictatorships of the 1930s/40s in Europe. Somehow I think that unless something changes soon their government will lead to disaster for the country.

[RoseMerry]

I see the people of Iran reacting with so much more rage and anger than my countrymen did when we had an election stolen in 2000. I no more believe that this election was honest than that one.

And in fact, we have had one disaster after another for our country.

We are doomed.

[desertman]

he won?

[Freesia2]

"analysts in Europe and the United States who feel that way about the voters who just returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power in Iran."

No wonder newspapers and magazines are folding by the day. What in heck are you talking about eejit journalist for Newsweek?

The voters didn't return him to power. The Iranian power structure had troops in the street before the votes came in, they cut of all communication, announced the votes before they were counted. Oh and they didn't count the votes at all. At all.

This evil little whackjob was put in place. Installed. The election was a sham. And a shame. Why on earth would a "credible" US news source begin an article with the voters put him into power? This is as bogus a statement as anything coming out of the Iranian state media right now.

Get out of my face fool.

[sixx]

After watching some of the beatings on BBC, I have one thought, a warning to the young. Your rights must be protected, and defended, but so should your bodies. Don't believe like the students at Kent State, the students at Tiananmen that your brothers in uniform will never attack and kill you. Don't believe it for one minute. Democracy needs you alive, to stand another day.

[plages]

"What win!"

[newyorkid]

Why the vvestern press reported that lranian polls showed a tie, while the truth is that Ahmadinejad was winning by a landslide? Who controls the western press including Hu_ffPost always reporting to promote the interests of the israeIis?

[Gretel1or2]

So all the rioting is not really happening - it's just the western press reporting that?

[wereeverywhere]

This is not about the western press, Israel, or HuffPost. This is about thousands of terribly brave Iranians taking to the streets to affirm themselves as best they can against a thoroughly rotten system. Sorry that you've missed that.

[Ozarks]

State TV announced Ahmadinejad the winner two hours after polls closed. Wow, a 25 million vote count in two hours. The internet and all forms of public communications were down after the election. The election was decided by the mullas not by voters.

[vet64]

The Neo Con owned News Media is in turn managed and or owned by Israeli entities and individuals. How do Americans like being manipulated by the Israelis?

[ModernTimes1]

You're entitled to your own pat.heitc opinion, but you're not entitled to your own reality.

[repugnicansfearme]

The malignant dwarf has unfortunately sewed the seeds of his and his country's downfall.

[ModernTimes1]

His win means absolutely nothing to the world. Ahmad doesn't control any aspect of international policy of the state.
The only people whop will suffer are normal Iranians who will again face Ahmadinejad's morality police terrorizing the streets of Tehran.

[Steven Anderson]

Well Iran had their chance to vote out that hate monger and showed their colors once and for all. I just hope Israel now takes out their nuclear capabilities.

[Koolmorning]

Here comes the "real" hate monger. You're just like that jerk that won today. You are both alike, hate and war mongers.

[ModernTimes1]

This genius Koolmorning thinks anyone who opposes an oppressor is a hate monger.
. Go back to your Playstation, dude.

[Austintatious]

Ahmadinejad did not win.

[Billy Hell]

And you know that how...because the wishful thinking of the west went unfulfilled? It's going to take more than a self serving speech in Cairo to undo the damage America has done to it's global credibility.

[Austintatious]

I agree that it woul;d be naive to assume that a few speeches by Obama would change things that much. That is not why the most logical conclusion is that Ahmadinejad lost or feared he was going to, so that he and the Grand Poo Pah resorted to rigging the election.

The best evidence of a rigged election is what the sorry excuse for an Iranian government has done afterwards, and even before the voting was over. None of that would have occurred if the landslide claimed was legit. Any incumbent governmnent winning that big would not need to shut down the country's communications and resort to marshall law. Those are the tools of thugs, seeking to retain control in the face of significant popular unrest. It was a fix. Ahmadinejad did not win.

[hereitis]

he bears a striking resemblance to bush43 in the pic accompanying the article.

[antaeus]

It's the close-set eyes. I thought the same thing.

He does look like a stupid thug.

[Obamalicious]

"...voters who just returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power in Iran." What? Everyone knows this was a sham election.

[newyorkid]

Ahmadinejad's electoral landslide is a great victory. A truly great accomplishment against the pro lsrael USA.

[johnr49]

Ahmadinejad's alleged "victory" makes an attack by Israel MORE likely, not less.

[ModernTimes1]

Ahmadineajd is a political zero. He's sneered at in serious countries. Only thing he's good at is sending his patsies to harass women for petty offenses like wearing bright scarves.