So-called moderate Hassan Rohani has won Iran’s presidential election according to the Islamist theocracy’s interior minister, but that doesn’t change Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s view of Iran’s government.
“Of the 686 candidates who tried to register as presidential candidates, only eight were permitted to run,” Baird said in a statement Saturday. “With Iran’s opposition leaders in jail and their supporters having been denied the ability to co-ordinate since June 2009, none of the eight regime-approved candidates represents a real alternative for Iranian voters.”
He also said whoever replaces the holocaust-denying, outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad “will simply be another of Ayatollah Khamenei’s puppets in the tragic and dangerous pantomime that is life for all Iranians.” Read more…
