The Real Impeachment: Iran
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
More articles you won't read in the American press, which is buying hook, line, and sinker into the mindless warmongering against being propagated by the White House and others. The Guardian reports what's really happening:
A grand coalition of anti-government forces is planning a second Iranian revolution via the ballot box to deny President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in office and break the grip of what they call the "militia state" on public life and personal freedom.Encouraged by recent successes in local elections, opposition factions, democracy activists, and pro-reform clerics say they will bring together progressive parties loyal to former president Mohammad Khatami with so-called pragmatic conservatives led by Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The alliance aims to exploit the president's deepening unpopularity, borne of high unemployment, rising inflation and a looming crisis over petrol prices and possible rationing to win control of the Majlis in general elections which are due within 10 months.
Parliament last week voted to curtail Mr Ahmadinejad's term by holding presidential and parliamentary elections simultaneously next year.
Though the move is likely to be vetoed by the hardline Guardian Council, it served notice of mounting disaffection in parliament.
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