So official time out from the primaries, our currently sitting Democratic President Obama just got a legacy point and no one is noticing.
In a turn out that would make our voting public blush, at least those who can vote, Iran recently held a national election that was a referendum about the nuclear deal and opening more dialogue with the West.
The Reformist took every single seat in Tehran. All 30, the leading conservative is 31st with 90% of the votes in. The country-side surprised everyone and went conservative/moderate-conservative over ultra-conservative!
Iran election: Reformists win all 30 Tehran seats
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Allies of Iran's reformist President Hassan Rouhani have won a landslide victory in Tehran, in the first parliamentary vote since Iran signed a nuclear deal with world powers.
With 90% of the votes counted, the pro-Rouhani List of Hope is set to take all 30 parliamentary seats in the capital.
The leading conservative candidate Gholamali Haddad-Adel is in 31st place.
Millions voted on Friday to elect the 290-seat parliament as well as members of the Assembly of Experts.
The 88-member assembly appoints Iran's Supreme Leader and might end up choosing a successor to Ayatollah Khamenei, who is 76 and has suffered ill-health.
Early results gave former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a moderate conservative, and Mr Rouhani the most votes for the assembly, which is composed of mostly elder and senior clerics.
The best way to think of the Assembly of Experts is a Theocratic Bureaucratic system very similar to the House of Lords in the UK, which is a Classist Bureaucratic system. Basically the ultra-hardliners in Iran have been rejected in favor of an era of economic and culture trade with the West.
Thanks Obama! Finally earned that Peace Prize people were giving you so much grief about, just got it a bit early.
This should also be salt in the eye of the Republican Party as they only seem to offer sticks and never carrots, since the first carrot we offered got the horse to water. Funny that.
Hopefully a certain Democratic candidate no longer considers democracy in action the “enemy”.