No matter who wins today, it will not make that much of a difference in Iran. All four candidates have been chosen by and approved by the Mullahs out of 450 applicants. Even though some of them are touted as moderates such as Mir Hussein Moussavi, they are all subscribers of the Mullah ideology and philosophy in one form or another. This is the reason why they were chosen to run.Mir Hussein Moussavi, the most likely one to defeat Ahmadinejad in this election, is nothing more than the new PR face for supreme leader Khamenei who is pulling the strings behind the scenes. In his resume, he lists as honors among other things the bombings of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the massacre of almost 30,000 political prisoners, and 144 assassinations. This is what the Western media is touting as the saving moderate.
Iran has a sharia legal system where the authority belongs to the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Kamenei who is the final decision and policymaker, not the president.
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My colleague at the University of South Florida, Professor Mohsen Milani, is one of the nation's leading experts on Iranian foreign policy. Though much has been written about U.S. policy toward Iran, it is rare to find thoughtful analysis - at least in English - of Iran's foreign policy toward the U.S. In this just-released article from Foreign Affairs, Milani provides an insightful and lucid explanation of Iran's strategic logic, and describes the assumptions that guide their rhetoric, actions and world view. He offers a perspicacious look behind the sensationalistic Western media portrayal of an irrational and undeterrable nation to see the view from the other side. -RB (http://globalcrim.blogspot.com)
The article is titled: "Tehran's Take" and can be found at Foreign Affairs (http://foreignaffairs.com)
Snippet:
Iran’s foreign policy is often portrayed in sensationalistic terms, but in reality it is a rational strategy meant to ensure the survival of the Islamic Republic against what Tehran thinks is an existential threat posed by the United States.
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