Comments on: Iran’s democracy is a sham but here is why I voted in the Presidential Election

By: Sally's Husband

Sally's Husband — Sun, 28 May 2017 09:38:14 +0000

In reply to Lois Griffiths. Well said, Lois.

By: Sally's Husband

Sally's Husband — Sun, 28 May 2017 09:37:46 +0000

So you’re an apologist for the Saudi, Off White, because they are our “friends”? Just as well we never became friends with Nazi Germany, you’d be rah-rahing for Adolph.

By: debsisdead

debsisdead — Wed, 24 May 2017 21:16:30 +0000

Unelected official in the US determined who could run for prez there, they decided Sanders could not and that created a big mess.
America who imprisons & executes people at a far greater rate than Iran isn’t considered in your self hating diatribe. Your whine about the ‘impure democracy’ of Iran could be extended to every other so called democracy around the world they all have ways to ensure the choice is only between tweedledum or tweedledee.

NZ has its own fit ups and gerrymanders the Epsom electorate being a prime example. These decisions are made by party officials often in consultation with electoral authorities none of whom are answerable to the wider public.
I don’t understand why people who don’t live in Iran, many of whom weren’t even born there because their antecedents scurried out of the place with whatever ill gotten gains they could carry when the murdering & torturing Pahlavi – a typical Russian gangster, was gotten rid of.
Yet somehow these self interested foreigners believe they have anything to offer in the way of informed comment of Iran. The fact that this article relies on ‘reports’ by proven zionist front the mercenary Human Rights Watch, pretty much sums up the foundation of fakery this garbage was built upon.

By: Lois Griffiths

Lois Griffiths — Wed, 24 May 2017 01:50:40 +0000

There is no other country in the world ‘just like Saudi’.

It’s disturbing that media reports on Trump’s visit made no mention about Saudi Arabia’s bombing of Yemen..about how millions of Yemeni face a famine of biblical proportions..and now cholera…

The US threatens Iran, surrounds Iran with American bases, and arms Israel and Saudi Arabia with the latest in high-tech killing armaments.
The cold-blooded callousness of the West is frightening, as is the political power of military corporations. ..as is the lack of interest in the skills of diplomacy

By: Brigid

Brigid — Tue, 23 May 2017 23:21:15 +0000

Given HRW false account of the situation in Syria, perhaps their report on Iran is not completely correct also.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 23 May 2017 05:48:11 +0000

the sentiments expressed in this article will be worth recalling as we head to the polling booth to select our own least bad option

By: Donna Miles

Donna Miles — Tue, 23 May 2017 01:45:33 +0000

In reply to Samwise. Here here.

By: Lois Griffiths

Lois Griffiths — Tue, 23 May 2017 01:45:26 +0000

Thank you for sharing this.

By: Samwise

Samwise — Mon, 22 May 2017 23:07:39 +0000

It’s ironic really. Trump has cuddled up to the Saudis, which are an unelected religious dictatorship, while he lambasts Iran, which is at least on the path to multi-party democracy. Iran’s system is by no means perfect, but it beats the Wahhabism monarchy that chops of peoples’ heads and suppresses women.

Iran is closer aligned to our democratic values than Saudi Arabia.that’s something that seems to have escaped trump’s notoriously short attention span.