Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Iranians took part in an election. Guess what: Their votes mattered.

Iranians took part in an election. Guess what: Their votes mattered.

In Washington, the common line ahead of Iranian elections last Friday was that the vote didn't really matter. Millions of Iranians were going to the ballot box to elect a new parliament as well the members of another body, a somewhat obscure clerical assembly that supervises the country's supreme leader. In both cases, observers argued, this exercise of democracy would be […]











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