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June 25, 2005
Iranian Elections: An Analysis
Iqbal Siddiqui, writing is the June 25, 2005 edition of Media Monitors Network, said: For those willing to see it, there is an undeniable irony in the fact that, at a time when the US and other Western countries claim to be championing democracy in the Muslim world, the only country in the Middle East with a genuinely open, participatory and vibrant political system is the Islamic State of Iran, the country that the US regards as its main enemy in the world.
"Equally notable," the writer said, " is the fact that even as the West attacks Iran for being undemocratic, and represents itself as friend and ally of oppressed Iranians demanding democratic change in their country, senior figures in Iran respond by proclaiming that the Islamic State represents true democracy, and criticizing elections in the US and the UK as proving that there is not real democracy in the Western countries that hypocritically claim to be the founders and leaders of universal democratic values."
For more, see "Presidential polls in Islamic Iran: Elections without western-style democracy."
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 25, 2005 03:24 PM
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