University life in Iran

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<p>And in the next election, (which will be the 7th national democratic election since the U.S. was booted from the country), these students will get to vote for a new President, and (if history is a guide), there will likely be a new one with views and policies very different from the current one.<<</p>
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<p>It’s highly unlikely that the next president of Iran will be very much different from the current one, because to get on the ballot in Iran a candidate must first be approved by a council of very conservative religious leaders. In the last election none of the reform candidates made it onto the ballot. The same will happen next time, and once again the voters will be left to choose between slightly different shades of the status quo. A rather bogus form of democracy in my opinion.</p>

<p><a href=“http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/12/iran11114.htm[/url]”>http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/12/iran11114.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;