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A blatantly fraudulent election may have been the spark that ignited Iran's current rebellion but don't be misled: Iran has never had free and fair elections.
I was in Iran 30 years ago for the first elections held under the gaze of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the dourly militant leader of Iran's Islamist revolution. I was a young and inexperienced foreign correspondent unconvinced by older and more experienced foreign correspondents that Khomeini and his followers intended to transform Iran into a freer and more just society, rather than one that would be brutally oppressive at home and threatening abroad.
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Cliff May has no better knowledge of how rigged the elections were than Simon Cowell. He is typical of the professional stirrers-up who want to distract us from the appalling problems facing our own country. The oil companies, the armaments makers and the pro-Israelis are the ones agitating against a state that will sell all its gas to Russia and China if we keep trying to destabilize it.
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