A conservative Iranian newspaper says the country’s main opposition leader must be tried for inciting unrest after June’s disputed presidential elections.
In an editorial, the Kayhan daily said Mir Hossein Mousavi was a US agent and should be charged with “treason”.
Street protests after the poll – which Mr Mousavi says was rigged – have revealed a rift in Iran’s leadership.
Separately, a UK embassy worker detained in Tehran has been charged over the protests, a report says.
The British Foreign Office says it is investigating the report, by the Guardian newspaper, that the embassy’s chief political analyst had been accused of “acting against national security”.
‘Horrendous crimes’
Kayhan accused Mr Mousavi of “killing innocent people, inciting riots, hiring thugs to assault people, evident co-operation with foreigners and playing the part of US fifth column”.
The newspaper, whose editor is appointed by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there were “undeniable documents” proving that Mr Mousavi had links with foreign countries. …
Is it possible to vote Iran’s current political leadership out of office?
Is it possible to vote the current political leadership in Iran out of office against the wishes of Iran’s current religious leadership? There does not appear to be a separation of church and state in the country’s leadership model. Must both political and religious leaders concur for there to be a change of Iran’s political leadership?
Could the votes of Iran’s population be considered the popular vote while Iran’s religious leaders be considered an electoral college?
… An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entities, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way. Many times, though, the electors are simply important people whose wisdom, ideally, would provide a better choice than a larger body. The system can ignore the wishes of a general membership, whose thinking need not be considered. …
The ELECTORAL COLLEGE idea is used by at least one country that has, over the course of years, demonstrated a healthy respect for the desires of the electorate. But the electoral college is the final word. It can concur with the popular presidential vote or deny the popular presidential vote.
Using the electoral college “tool” could eliminate the “messy” process of blaming others for the WRONG outcome of an election. There might no longer be a need to blame:
- Left Wing Revisionists
- Right Wing Revisionists
- TREASON
- OUTSIDERS
If the outcome of an election is PRE-ORDAINED then a tool, other than killing or incarcerating might be just the thing needed. The electoral college could affirm or deny the popular vote.
Perhaps knowing that one has the legal and civilized power to change an election’s outcome could assuage the desire for ruthless revenge for elections that don’t come out right.
Ruthless:
1. Without mercy or pity
“an act of ruthless ferocity”
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While religious leaders have, in the distant pass, worn RUTHLESSNESS as well as any other “decapitator” of human heads, the world is now in a different mode. And ruthless religious leaders look “UNGOOD”.
