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June 17, 2005
Why U.S. Criticizes Iran's Election
U.S. Syndicated Columnist Adrian Hamiliton made this observation about the Iranian election: It's an indication of the way we look at the Middle East that any election the West feels it has helped along -- in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt for example -- is greeted as a historic breakthrough, while the Iranian presidential election today, with which we have no part, is being largely treated as artificial, soured by voter apathy and unlikely to change very much.
But the Iranian elections are for real. Of course they are not full and fair in the sense that the control of the candidates' list by the clerics excludes many of the potential reformist figures.Indeed, the Bush Administration has criticized the election. See "Iranians vote for president, U.S. barbs fly." Here's more of Hamilton's commentary.
Posted by Munir Umrani at June 17, 2005 07:00 AM
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