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Iran Elections Are Hardly a Victory for Democratic Change


(Bloomberg) Eli Lake - As Saeed Ghasseminejad, an expert on Iranian politics at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, recently said: "Putting a reformist or moderate label on hardliners does not make them reformist or moderate." Caitlin Shayda Pendleton of the American Enterprise Institute noted Sunday: "Many... candidates described as reformists...are actually moderates who were endorsed by reformist leaders as a fallback after the Guardian Council disqualified most of the reformists trying to run." This is hardly a victory for democratic change in Iran.
2016-03-01 00:00:00
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