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Dubbed the voto en blanco, or "blank vote," the curious movement emerged on blogs and in YouTube videos when campaigns kicked off last month. Since then it has snowballed, with prominent intellectuals and several politicians themselves joining its ranks. Its simple message: the whole political system stinks, so just draw...
The President was, without question, the best politician in the race. His debates against the two reformers, Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, were routs. Both challengers were exemplars of the older generation - the generation that made the Islamic revolution in 1979 - and both were flummoxed by a candidate who seemed to...
The reformers - and even many of the more prominent conservatives (who call themselves principalists) - considered these attacks outrageous, outside the rules of Iranian politics. "The attacks might have worked with Ahmadinejad's supporters," said Amir Mohebbian, a prominent principalist thinker who backed Ahmadinejad with some reservations. "But they were not...
And while it's the ultimate journalistic cliché to quote a cabdriver, I can't resist this one: on the Saturday before the election, I attended a large and metaphoric Mousavi rally - someone had cut the electricity, so the candidate couldn't speak - in the city of Kharaj, about...
Khamenei's abrupt dismissal of reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi's supporters also suggests that he has lost touch with a central principle of the Islamic revolution, says Gary Sick, Jimmy Carter's top White House adviser on Iran during that period. Mousavi's supporters were mobilized by feelings of...