the second democracy in the middle east

The second democracy in the Middle East

By David Verveer

Passed are those days that Israel could claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East, after the elections in Iran last week, where all citizens were free to vote for anybody they choose, opposition, government or nobodies. The participation in the popular elections was so great; the democratic government even prolonged the voting time from 8 o'clock to 10 at night. And it must be said, the voting in the polling stations was mostly orderly and civilized. Even though, foreign observers were not allowed, the Western World got the impression that the voting was fair and democratic.

In appreciation of the good behavior of its citizens, the Government published a promise that in future election, the votes will also be counted, even though, thought a waste of time and improper interferences with the wishes of Iran's great leader, his holy excellence, the Ayatollah.
People critical of the Iranian democracy must admit that the published results of the election were made public only after the closing of the polling stations, and not, like in un democratic countries and dictatorships, where the elections results are 99% in favor of the Government. I got tears in my eyes when I saw the Iranian results of only 63% for the incumbent President and 34% for his challenger, how courageous, true democrats.

What is incomprehensible to me are the riots in Tehran and other major Iranian towns, how dare they question the wisdom of the Ayatollahs, why are those demonstrators so ungrateful for the brilliant leadership of Ahmadinajad, a leader who was prepared to sacrifice Iran's natural recourses on building nuclear weapons, needed to defend the Iranian nation against the great and little Satans, the USA and Israel. You must admit that Iran supported important freedom movements such as the Hezbollah and Hamas, when other Muslim states only thought of their own prosperity, Iran armed the freedom fighters unselfishly with high tech warfare, even if this meant poverty for the ordinary peasants of Iran.

And the Holocaust denial, look how the hero and president personally went to the UN assembly, to tell them that the Holocaust never happened, who would have thought that an Iranian leader would stand up against the entire world.

I know that nobody in Iran will be able to read this, as the electronic connections seem to encounter un-explained problems, which makes e-mail connections between the democratic Islamic republic of Iran and the rest of the world impossible, most likely caused by external problem arousers trying to give an impression of a revolution developing in Iran, which is of course imperialistic propaganda.

Remember that Musavi utilized his wife in order to receive the popular vote of the women, how unpatriotic and anti-Iranian, tomorrow his wife will run for president, like Hillary, God forbid.