For those people who claim that Iran is a democracy...think again.
Now you might say, "But they have elections". While that's true, the power of the presidential office in Iran is really quite limited. The real leader of Iran is not the president, but the Supreme Leader who hold supreme(tough guess huh?) and unlimited authority. Guess who the Supreme Leader supported in this election? Ahmadinejad. Guess who won by a large margin? Ahmadinejad.
In fact, the Supreme Leader actually decides who can run for the office of president in the first place. The president is actually little more than a mouthpiece who regurgitates what is given to to him by the Supreme Leader. Kinda like the main-stream media with Obama.
The good news is that there is a large number of Iranians who are tired of the extremist views of their radical leaders and who yearn for a freedom like that being experienced in Iraq and in a lesser sense Afghanistan. Whether they'll be able to overthrow the oppression anytime soon remains to be seen.
One thing is for sure though, Iran is not a democracy. It is instead a totalitarian regime controlled by a group of Islamic extremists determined to at whatever cost complete their goal-the destruction of Israel, and in a greater sense, the Western world as we know it.
God bless.
Remember to pray!
Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/iran_election_Ahmadinejad/2009/06/13/224802.html
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