• circuscritic
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    6 months ago

    It’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.

    Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible.

    However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default?

    Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.

    • @postgeographix@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      True. Similar to the Democrat primaries, haha.

      But it is pretty well understood that once you get on to the candidate list, then it is a really free election. You can see from the Khamenei twitter account that he is salty AF about this result, but he honours it