Interesting piece from Al Jazeera. Although perhaps obvious, I am hoping for a Mousavi win. Of course, the radicals in Iran -- the ones threatening apocalyptic war, are not big fans of Mousavi:
Mousavi revives reformist vote
By Teymoor Nabili in Tehran
Mousavi, right, has campaigned on a reformist platform with his wife at his side
If Iran is indeed "a messianic, apocalyptic cult", as Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, recently claimed, its government needs to seriously improve its brainwashing techniques.
Riding through Tehran with reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in the small hours of Tuesday morning, through tens of thousands of his jubilant and apparently rational supporters, I found it impossible to see any evidence of the "country that glorifies blood and death, including its own self-immolation" that Netanyahu so fears.
Full story here: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/06/2009612102154262910.html
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Mousavi is still trailing in the polls, so don't expect any last minute upset win. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/06/polling-and-voting-in-irans-friday.html
That said, the steady progress toward representative government and democracy in Iran is encouraging. Yes, the clergy still functions as a sort of super-powered Governor General. But the process is one that, in time, works - we know this, because that's how we did it here in this country.
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