On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:05:33 +0000, Tony Polson
wrote:



The current hardline Iranian President was democratically elected in
preference to a candidate who leaned more to the West and towards a
rapprochement with the USA. That says more than anything else about
the will of the Iranian people.


The nut-job president of Iran got elected because the "politicians"
were considered corrupt and he was not. "All politics is local," as
"Tip" O'Neill, a great Irish-American politician once said.


There is no evidence whatsoever that the Iranians would welcome a
return to the corrupt and decadent days of the US-financed Shah,

quite the contrary, judging by the election results.