Will The Real Iran Please Stand Up?

Finally some apparent good news out of Iran. In the recent local and municipal elections across Iran, many “moderate conservatives” and “reformists” (remember, this is Iran) won a majority of seats in local councils elections. Many analysts and media outlets have reported that these election results, coupled with recent student protests, is a rebuke to the extreme hard line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad is specifically notorious to this blog’s readership for his pursuit of nuclear weapons, calls for the destruction of Israel and the aggressive denial of the Holocaust.

This blog hopes that the Iranian people will soon tire of Ahmadinejad’s antics and either force him to focus on the local bread and butter issues of the economy, unemployment and crime enforcement or force him out of office. Of course, the Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenehi holds the real power in Iran. But hopefully this new movement in the country will persuade the hardline regime in Iran to soften its stance and understand that anti-Semitic rhetoric and West baiting will not help the country move forward and provide for its people. Another revolution may be in the works . . .