On The Line: Iran’s Revolution – 25 Years Later
October 13th, 2007
Reformist law makers in Iran called the controlled February 20th elections there a “sham” that “Deprived the people there of the most basic right — the right to choose and be chosen.” More than two thousand reform candidates were blocked from running for Parliament by the twelve-member Guardian Council, an unelected group that wields enormous power in Iran’s theocratic system. Parliamentary leaders wrote a six-page open letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that said bluntly: “You lead a system in which legitimate freedoms and the rights of the people are being trampled on in the name of Islam.” The lawmakers called the election “unfair” and “vastly illegal”. Many others announced a boycott.
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