The lie of Iranian moderation - Iran's new foreign policy head responsible for terror bombing in Argentina

...An Iranian politician known for his role in planning and approving the deadly 1994 terrorist bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina has officially been appointed to helm Iran’s top foreign policy shop, a posting formerly held by current President Hassan Rouhani...

...An Argentine judge issued an international arrest warrant for Velayati in 2006 for his role in planning the terror attack.

Additionally, Velayati has been accused by Ger­man author­i­ties of “plan­ning the 1992 ‘Mykonos Assas­si­na­tion’ attacks in Berlin that killed sev­eral Iran­ian Kur­dish leaders,”according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

Current Iranian President Rouhani also served as a member of the committee that signed off on the attack....

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Iran upset Canada's Foreign Minister called their sham election a "sham election"

TEHRAN – Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi has called on Canadian officials to take a “rational” and “wise” approach toward Iran.

Salehi was referring to the recent interfering comments by his Canadian counterpart John Baird on Iran’s presidential election in which he raised doubts on the credibility of the election, calling it a “sham election.”

Baird also made allegations that the Iranian government had rigged the results by banning women candidates, silencing democratic voices, and censoring the press.  

Your guide to Iran's upcoming presidential "election"

Next week, voters in the Islamic Republic of Iran will be allowed to choose from one of eight candidates, all of whom had to be approved by its dictatorial Guardian Council.

These sham elections will result in Iran having a new president who has pre-committed to towing the line of Supreme Ruler Ayatollah Ali Khameini.

As ex-patriot Iranian democracy activist Sayeh Hassan notes, "not one eligible candidate has advocated for an end to the stoning of women and the public hanging of homosexuals...None have called for an independent investigation into the arrest, torture and murder of scores of Iranian political protestors in the wake of the last election. "

Mohammad-Reza Aref

Nonetheless, there are differences between the Iranian presidential candidates. Essentially, despite there being eight of them, the choices boil down to two. Seven of the candidates are essentially identical, all hardcore Islamist acolytes of Ali Khameini.

The one who stands apart from the rest is Mohammad-Reza Aref.  He was a minister in the disappointing government of Mohammad Khatami, who was supposed to be the reformer who would bring a new liberalism to Iran. That, of course, never happened. Khatami was no liberal in the western sense of the word, and those efforts he made at alleviating the repressive rule of the Islamic dictatorship was stymied by the ruling Ayatollahs of the Guardian Council through their vicious enforcers, the Revolutionary Guard, along with their urban militia of thugs, the Basij.

Aref too is no liberal democrat, but he is not pathologically hostile to the West, nor ideologically committed to terrorism, like his predecessor, the lunatic Holocaust-denier, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

What happens following next week's election will not likely make a huge difference in how the west deals with Iran in the near future. No matter who has the most votes, the election is a meaningless pretense at democracy that will leave Ali Khameini and his Guardian Council still pulling the strings of power in the Islamic Republic.

But if, by some chance, Aref is elected, it may serve as a catalyst for a popular uprising against the totalitarian Ayatollahs. Let us hope that should that happen, US President Obama does not betray democracy by failing to support them as he failed them in Iran's last attempt at a "green revolution."

Iran's top mullah condemns West on its treatment of women

Kind of like getting a lecture on child care from John Wayne Gacy.   From Iran's English-language propaganda service PRESS TV:

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the materialistic approach taken by the Western civilization to women is an unforgivable sin.  

During a Wednesday speech on the occasion of the Muslim Women’s Day, Ayatollah Khamenei stated that the Western civilization allows for hedonism and the disrespecting of women, which is considered freedom in the West and anything other than that is viewed as captivity.   

The Leader noted that the Western civilization with its malicious, sexual laws is doomed to fall whether it likes it or not. 

h/t GenuineWitty