BBC News: Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami has ended months of speculation by announcing that he will run in June’s presidential election. Mr Khatami was president of Iran from 1997-2005 and was succeeded by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative. “I will seriously take part as a candidate for the election,” he told a meeting of a pro-reform group. [Your thoughts?]
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As long as he dresses like an Arab, and kisses the ass of Ayatolah Khamanei and his cohorts, and does not stand for separation of Mosque and State and a constitutional reform, he still belongs to the stone ages and will not help bringing Iran into the 21st century.
Khatami has already demonstrated that he is incapable of changing/reforming the clerical/akhoond rein/hold on the country. He is incapable of sending the clergy to Qom where they belong, and bring about a new constitution, independent of God and any religion — including Islam.
If he stands for changing “IRI” to simply “Iran”, dismantling the entire thugs/Basijis/Moral Police/Komitehs, and abolishing the Valayateh Faghih and its barbaric doctrine, I may consider him as a qualified candidate. Otherwise, he is nothing but continuation of the same shit as the past 30 years. Dump him.
CJ! Where you been, man? Long time no see… Comment more, will ya?
http://rajanews.com/detail.asp?id=24528
“As long as he dresses like an Arab,”
If you dress like an Arab, you cant be modern? What if you dress like a Jew?
Thanks 🙂 this guy is so out of it, and he thinks he knows it all, so out of it and full of it . very good point, they are racist,
I would have to agree on this one with Curious Joe.
But still, the man shook hands with a Persian Israeli President and greeted him with kind words so that’s 1 million times better than A-Bomb-i-nejad.
I’d like to hear iPouya’s thoughts on the Israeli elections today… What hate do you have to share with us?
Of course you would JZ, you are a Zionist, and racism towards Arabs is inherent in your movement and ideology. Not that it matters, its more interesting to see your knowledge of the histrorical record, which, ahem, is very limited as weve seen.
On a serious note, it will be fascinating to see how adamantly and fanatically the ZIonist state will work to undermine any rapproachment between the US and the Islamic Republic, if there are any signs of one. The insane state, of course, prospers on chaos and rivalry, but thankfully its eventual destruction is ensured by its own policies.
Its been quite revealing to see how the ZIonist state has taken off its clothes. The European Jew Lieberman exposes the face of Israel and Zionsm in a way that the other Nazis (Likud and Kadima) try to hide under nuance.
Any grand bargain with Iran is a tall order that assumes that the structural conflict between an assertive regional power insistent on regional autonomy on the one hand and an intrusive superpower apt to a “proxy war” on Israel’s behalf can be somehow resolved by the nuances of a clever bargaining formula.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KB11Ak02.html
Why did you delete my comment? It wasn’t any more offensive than what Curious Joe said…it was an agreement with him plus some of my own thoughts. Is this the kind of “reform” you stand for?