How democratic is Iran's election process?

[Sallow]

That's simply not the case.

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Of course it is....in 2011/2012 a study was conducted "circumventing Iran's "electronic curtain" and asking questions which constituted an accurate representative sample of Iranian society, including all of Iran's 31 provinces as well as a representative distribution of all ethnic groups, ages and levels of education.

An analysis of the Iranian sample showed that alongside conservative values, such as conformity and tradition, Iranian society is characterized by strong support for pro-liberal values such as a belief in the importance of self-direction and benevolence. For example, 94% of the respondents identified with the sentence "freedom to choose what he does is important to him," and 71% of the respondents identified with the sentence "being tolerant toward all kinds of people and groups is important to him."

[The] findings demonstrate that Iranian society as a whole is characterized by a pro-liberal value structure that is deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime. This presents considerable potential for regime change in Iran and for the development of liberal democracy.
Yuval Porat: Iranians Have Democratic Values - WSJ.com

The heart wants what the heart wants and there is no amount of oppression which will ever quell the human spirit.

The reason the people won't rise up again is that it's no longer worth it to them. They don't stand a chance, plus, the last time they did it, our president turned his back on them. The tales of torture and executions coming out if Iran are so horrific, one cannot even describe them. Let's not forget, the Islamist Republic of Iran are the teachers of Assad and Hezbollah in how to be ruthless and barbaric so that nobody dares say a thing.

Do ever get out of the right wing bubble?

Neither side in Iran wanted US intervention.

Did you know that?

 

[Roudy]

That's simply not the case.

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hxxp://www[.]worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/652.php
hxxp://www[.]iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/2011/11/iranians-do-support-their-government.html
hxxp://www[.]gallup.com/poll/160358/iranians-feel-bite-sanctions-blame-not-own-leaders.aspx
hxxp://www[.]iar-gwu.org/node/474

PressTV? That's the propaganda arm of the Iranian govt, it's like quoting North Korean govt., or Al queda central.

Get a life dude. You have no idea what is happening in Iran.

I also quoted Gallup. But you wish to promote your own narrative...alas.

Gallup poll was about the sanctions.

This is about how Iranians inside and outside of Iran feel about the govt. and only an ignorant deluded fool would try to promote that Iranians actually "approve" of this barbaric oppressive radical Islamist regime that is in power now. Why don't you talk with some Iranians here in the US, there are many of them.

 

[Roudy]

Of course it is....in 2011/2012 a study was conducted "circumventing Iran's "electronic curtain" and asking questions which constituted an accurate representative sample of Iranian society, including all of Iran's 31 provinces as well as a representative distribution of all ethnic groups, ages and levels of education.

An analysis of the Iranian sample showed that alongside conservative values, such as conformity and tradition, Iranian society is characterized by strong support for pro-liberal values such as a belief in the importance of self-direction and benevolence. For example, 94% of the respondents identified with the sentence "freedom to choose what he does is important to him," and 71% of the respondents identified with the sentence "being tolerant toward all kinds of people and groups is important to him."

[The] findings demonstrate that Iranian society as a whole is characterized by a pro-liberal value structure that is deeply at odds with the fundamentalist regime. This presents considerable potential for regime change in Iran and for the development of liberal democracy.
Yuval Porat: Iranians Have Democratic Values - WSJ.com

The heart wants what the heart wants and there is no amount of oppression which will ever quell the human spirit.

The reason the people won't rise up again is that it's no longer worth it to them. They don't stand a chance, plus, the last time they did it, our president turned his back on them. The tales of torture and executions coming out if Iran are so horrific, one cannot even describe them. Let's not forget, the Islamist Republic of Iran are the teachers of Assad and Hezbollah in how to be ruthless and barbaric so that nobody dares say a thing.

Do ever get out of the right wing bubble?

Neither side in Iran wanted US intervention.

Did you know that?

Well considering Carter was the one who fucked Iran up and messed up the entire Middle East, and now we have a president who is basically Carter on steroids, projecting weakness, indecision, and appeasement across the Globe, I think it is actually you that should step out of the left wing nutjob bubble of liberal bullshit, which has noting to do with reality.

Did you forget how Upset Iranians were at president Obama when he refused to throw his support behind them in 2009? Which in turn gave the govt. the green light to continue slaughtering the protesters and caused the uprisings to fail?

"In the kind of world we are living in today, we can't afford a president who needs on the job training". John McCain, 2008 campaign. How true those words ring today.

Why Obama Betrayed The Iranian People

Why did President Obama refuse to support the demonstrators in Iran in 2009, but supported the "Arab Spring" in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere more recently?

In 2009, demonstrators filled the streets of Iran, denouncing the regime and crying out for freedom. It was a glorious opportunity for the leader of the free world to demonstrate his support for free people everywhere and strike a decisive blow against the bloody regime that had considered itself at war with the United States for three decades.
But Barack Obama didn't help them. Quite the contrary. The leader of the free world was too busy extending his hand to those same mullahs. It was monstrous when Obama stood by and did nothing during the abortive Iranian revolution; instead, he bought ice cream and posed for photo ops on the golf course while the only revolution against Islamic rule in a Muslim country was taking flight in Iran.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed one reason why last week: the Obama administration's Iranian advisers told them not to express support for the protesters.