Iran’s Guardian Council, a government body responsible for
vetting the candidates in the upcoming presidential election, today delayed the
publication of its list of qualified candidates until the end of business day
on Tuesday 21 May. The presidential election will be held on Friday 14 June.
The Council’s decision will give the “chosen” candidates just over three weeks
to campaign. The supreme leader can also veto any of the council’s decisions.
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will the "approved" list contain the names of any of the women who wish to run for president?
A member of the Guardian Council, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, has said women cannot be approved to run in the election, practically killing the largely symbolic candidacies by about 30 women in the upcoming presidential election. The constitution is silent on the issue, but the ultraconservative Guardian Council has always rejected women's bids to run for presidency.
HA HA HA HA !!
A healthy system filters out Idiots; but the Mullah system filter out any form of rationality out of itself; it is a self enclosure of religious stupidity; now obviously that does not work in reality - other than in destructive manner; really evil man who created such a system ...
Sorry folks, but the vetting process is necessary to keep out idiots. Although some may still get thru like ahmaginejad. The woman part I don't get..I mean realistically, its not like any female candidate is going to win, but they should atleast be allowed to run. However comparing apples to apples, iran has way more female political representation than any other muslim country.
The whole thing is a farce.
How come, despite over 200 years of "democracy" in the US or in Saudi Arabia, Turkey etc., they haven't found opportunity to elect a woman as a president of those countries yet?.
Maybe Iran is waiting for their "example".
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HA HA HA HA, have Fazeli brought you back?.
No more farce than the Florida hanging chads and the Zionist controlled US "electoral college"!
it's the idiots that run the vetting process, chuckles.
would sort of chimpanzee postulates ... ' the Zionist controlled US "electoral college"!"????
What to do with RASF, MASH, etc?
GC seemed a viable solution for maintaining elections during similar conditions where in 1940 the British leadership decided upon suspension of national elections, But there now appears potential flaws in this IRI solution.
I think there are too many candidates from different factions duplicating the same ideology and each of the 3 major factions will have to come up with one viable candidate. It just shows the vibrancy of Iranian democracy where the field would have to be whittled down to a super candidate like Qalibaf, Rafsanjani or a not very viable candidate like Ahmadinejad's protege Mashei.
Here the voice of Iranian woman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VRbm8DRCms
You don't want anything better for your country. You are comparing it with the "Zionist Controlled electoral college" and you are satisfied !
You are deluded if you think the Mullah wants a president. He wants a lakey, se they will select one.
IS the Nation ready for a Woman president?.to wish is one thing and to garner team support is another!!.
I posted the video-link above and I must now retract its content; it is staged - it is a fake; i got excited because I believe what she is saying is true nonetheless - a true lie - sort of. You are free to delete that link if appropriate ...
Yazdi is claiming that the ban on women’s participation in presidential election is enshrined in the Islamic Republic’s laws, a view closest to the reactionary views of the salafis in Saudi Arabia.
We’ve had female leaders in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe. In some countries, like the U.S., no woman has yet been elected as president. Those opposing women because of their gender in all countries share the same reactionary viewpoint on the subject as Yazdi and the salafis. But fortunately only few countries (like Iran and Saudi Arabia) ban their participation on legal basis. Hope those could change as well, and soon.
just more proof of how little the chimps on the GC trust the citizens of Iran and how fully power in concentrated in the old farts and withheld from the people.
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The head of Iran's constitutional watchdog says it may disqualify candidates in June presidential elections who seek full relations with the United States.
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, secretary of the Guardian Council that vets candidates, said Friday on state radio that some nominees may hope that international sanctions over Tehran's disputed nuclear program will end if the country restores relations with the U.S.
"Indeed, we should laugh at this comment," said Jannati. "If somebody has such a viewpoint, is it possible to approve him or to vote for him?"
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http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/May-17/217455-iran-may-ban-candidates-who-seek-ties-with-us.ashx#axzz2TYdY6yId
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fanboy, do you want to document your claim that national elections were suspended in Britain in 1940.....or do you wish to cling to your dishonest claim and hope that the readership here won't know that Britain doesn't have general elections scheduled every four years?
And there are plenty of lackeys in Iran for them to wash mullahs dirty laundry.
Clement Attlee beat Winston Churchill in general elections in 1945. The "vibrancy of Iranian democracy" (a "democracy" called velayet-e faqih) does not extend to popular elections for the Leader-for-Life nor to the female half of the population. Females apparently are "non-vibrant".
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