Do you think they are as rigged as the elections here in the US? At least Iranians themselves get to vote - not delegates. In addition we have a non-working congress and we support the terrorist states - like Israel and give them billions a year while our own poor go to bed at night hungry. Now - before blasting what other nations are doing, lets look at our own countrys faults and try to fix them - not just down some country so we can have another war and fill the denfense contractors coffers.

You sound like a hardliner to me. Extremist is the word that comes to mind.

Iranians voted on Friday in a parliamentary election which is expected to reinforce the power of the clerical establishment of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

.....And if you don't vote for me, you will pay the consequences..Great elections indeed...I wonder if the Republicans would be happier living there?

As I recall, it was the Democrats that were caught "stuffing the ballot boxes" in the last presidential election. I'm kind of glad they did though. I don't like Obama at all, but McCain and Palin was the worst possible choice for Republican front runners. I voted against them all on principal.

They will never be safe until they run out of their OIL.

Ballot-stuffing? By the Democrats? Dude - Are you high? I never even heard a single allegation!!! Get your head out of the Nat'l EXaminer and those other mags piled high by your "conspiracy desk"!

Ahmadinejad's media adviser has been sentenced to one year in jail for insulting Khamenei.

The above statement would find many of the bloggers on this and other sites site in prison for life based on the kind of comments we read from from time to time.I'm thankful for my freedom, I hope it lasts a while longer.

We take a lot for granted here and need to step up to the plate in terms of persnal responsibility lest we find ourselves in the same boat of despair as Iran. Do not think for one minute that we aren't up to our necks in crooks here as well. As the last few presidential elections would indicate we'd better keep an eye out for voter fraud, both sides have been guilty of tampering with the ballots and taking advantage of a flawed system. Personally I have little faith in the electric scanner that "reads" and tallies my votes, I liked the old system where representatives from all political parties checked the votes mannually watching each other's backs. Seems to me it would be fairly simple to rig a machine to meet ones needs.

Paranoid? Not really, just a little of "Once bitten twice shy" playing itself out.

Bush II was the worst choice and the Florida election was fixed by his brother. So much for the American voting process. If you have the money and power you can have the vote in America, nothing new.

Iran has elections, democracy and great freedom for its citizens, including women. Saudi Arabia has none of this but it doesn't matter because America doesn't need to use propaganda against them. Iran on the other hand as a free nation doesn't do what the US wants so we are inclined to support a war creating a dictator there - again.

Hey Joe, Do you think the Iranians feel the same about our Congressional Leaders and President, and our terrorist organization of the CIA? Most Americans I know would rather just be left alone and worry about Domestic issues, rather than International ones.

And our elections are rigged, too. See Diebold Voting Machines or "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss..."

The winner was announced yesterday in this Alice in Wonderland upside down country called Iran.Wiiner then elections.Guilty and then be hanged and then the trial.The winners are ayatollah1, ayatollah.2 and 3 .Vote against the Islamic Revolution and you die..There will be a lot of deaths in Iran before this government is overthrown by a multi national colaition including Arab and Muslim countres.Bombing the nuke sites will be just one aspect..the other is to overthrow the ayatollahs and their terrorist regime.And you won`t read about it first on Msnbc news.Most of the world will cheer.Too many countries have been victims of Iranian terrorists attacks or plots. Won`t be long now!!

Will the Iranians riot after this election like they did after the last election?

A man as evil and ruthless as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has all of the power he needs to beat the thoughts of freedom right out of the minds of the Iranian people.

SAGE So you never heard about ACORN.. Must be that convenient hearing because we have and the investigation is being dragged out but so far they have found several hundreds of thousands of dead people who voted for Obama.. They have also found a large number of multi registered voters who voted at least twice.. The supreme leader has been trying to get a bill through Congress for a while that further softens up voter registration and presidential eligibility requirements..

The Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his Islamic council rule Iran so any voting is done for puppets.. They do as they are told or off to jail or torture, but at least they do get a show trial.. Hillary Clinton runs this country and Obama is her puppet, who her puppet master is I don't know.. If I had to guess I would say the money movers and the big corporations pull the strings.. Democratic Capitalism is what our system is called and true capitalism is dog eat dog for money and power..

Dick,

News Flash! Bush has been out of office for over three years now and the mess we are in may have been started by him by has been made 10x worse with the inept excuse of a president we have now. HE campaigned on bringing the sides to gather, and then when he had a super majority and his idea's were too radical for his own party he blamed it on the "Party of No" (this was the stupidest phrase I have ever heard because at the time the Republicans did not have to votes to stop what he was pushing, so even his own party would not support min, and then what does he do ? Blames the Republicans.

He has lied to us, hid his background with our money to the tune of over 5 million now by having a team of attorney's tie-up any request to look at his high school or college records. This man has no clue on how to manage a national budget, no clue on foreign relations, screams about what Bush did and then comes in and not only does what he was yelling about but has done it worse then Bush.

All I know is I will dance the day he is removed by power, and I am disabled and can not walk with a leg braces and a walker, but for one day I will find the strength within me that we finally got the worst president this country has ever seen out of office. And as much as you may yell about Bush, by the time he is finished we will all think Bush was a saint and we finally got the Anti-Christ out of office!

Wow, you really are a kool-aid drinking idiot Tbenton. The "Party of No" was coined after the teabaggers and repubs took over the majority of the senate! They were the party of no, who voted against ANYTHING Obama supported, even if it ment hurting the US, just to make him look like a failure. Go back to reading Fox news and squee over all the obama hate there.

Bush II was nothing but a greedy SOB who cared only about himself. This was proven in his actions causing the worst downturn in the economy since the other Republican Hoover. Obama is getting us out of this mess, according to: The DOW, jobs, unemployment claims, and his affordable (and guaranteed) health care. If you want to go back to the Republican way of life during Bush II: Huge recession, unnecessary wars, failed security programs, 911, unemployment, banks stealing from the taxpayers and then being subsidized by the taxpayer, - well vote Republican.

News Flash to you, the Republicans were voted out of the House, Senate and Oval office because most Americans had it with the Republican screw up for 8 years. 2012 will be the same because most Americans remember Bush II and the Republicans just like me and will until their mess has been cleaned up and we move on.

If you get up out of your handicapped chair and dance, I hope it is for how someone else paid for your expense and Obamacare. If you get no money from any socialized entity or anyone else but just your own income, congratulations otherwise don't bite the hand that feeds you.

They both seem like hardline nut jobs to me. Just remember president Obama is in charge and has sent ships and troops to the area in a buildup to war.So he owns this one,not George Bush.

So Obama is kind of a warmonger and in the debates Romney and Santorum and Gingrich all were beating the war drum. Ron Paul is the only one who said to butt out and to talk with them.Of course he is the one with the most support from the military. Support the man!

The girl in the photo with the guitar is Iran's version of The Singing "None"........I could be wrong but there probably isn't a whole lot to sing about when it comes to Iranian elections; a place where it's all over way before "the fat lady sings"!!

Iran has elections, democracy and great freedom for its citizens, including women

Today's entry for the dumbest comment on Newsvine.

Thanks Dick!

Anyone find anything else even worse?

I wonder how much 'ballot stuffing' will go on?

Gee, I wonder what this thread would say if it were actually about the Iranian elections? Can't go two seconds without turning it into a party-bashing forum, can we?

Hey Roadrunner. You do realize that the ACORN scandal was bull@!$%#, right? That it was perpetrated by Andrew Breitbart (God rest his soul) and James O'Keefe? That the video tapes shown to the public were heavily edited to slant the actual story? Kind of like in the Shirley Sherrod case? And yes, all this has been proven. All ACORN did was register voters. Too late for that, though.

Irene sez:

Do you think they are as rigged as the elections here in the US?

Elections here are not rigged. Too saddled with big money, yes, but not rigged.

Iran is a brute force Theocracy. If you think the U.S. is 'just as bad' then go live in Iran for a few years and see how life it for you there, esp. as a woman. Then come back and file a report on how things went.

I will have to agree with Irene on that, we need to take care of our own first, but I guess people just ignore the poor and homeless, I see them everyday but what would most of you know about that, after all you all probably look down your nose at them .........

Dick 2100935,

You sure are living up to your name, aren't you?

Bush II was the worst choice and the Florida election was fixed by his brother.

Do you have ANY evidence to prove this? No you don't, so shut your pie hole. They only counted the votes, what, two or three times?

Iran has elections, democracy and great freedom for its citizens, including women

You got to be frikin kidding me! That has got to be the dumbsch!t-of-the-year award statement.

Oh, and how do your explain Obozo raising the national debt more in three years than Bush did in eight? Chew on that one. If you thing Obama is better than Bush, there is no hope for you. You drank too much koolaid.

The only "deviant current" in Iran that the rest of the world sees is Khameni himself, and his fanatical nut case clerics!

I have a suggestion for your ignorance. I do not believe the propaganda coming from Fox news any more then I do from the Obama supporters ABC, CBS, NBC, they all stink they just smell badly in different flavors. And Jim Adams, take a look at Obama's speeches where he was blaming the Republicans for stopping him when his own party had a super majority. Talk about brainwashed, you need to stop listening to the far left and do some research like I do. As for Bush he will go down as a bad president in the end, but so far Obama has upheld most of his policies and has turned into the worst we have ever had. With Bush I knew what I had, Obama does nothing but lie and says one thing and does another, he will throw anyone under the bus to promote his re-election, but I think that the average American this time is not going to sit home but vote for once and will overwhelmingly get this piece of trash out of the white house.

Benton, while I admit that the Fox propagandizing is sometimes more flagrant, I think that you get it. To me, NBC and CBS, and then to maybe a slightly lesser extent ABC and CNN, are all somewhat to wildly favorable to BHO. But it's not 100% -- how many now remember that the "Tea Party" movement began with a remark by a business correspondent on CNBC?

Tbenton, as you did not specify whose ignorance you were referring to it makes it difficult to respond so I will do so anyway. I happen to agree with most of what you posted. I try not to give credence to any one particular media outlet as they all have their own particular agendas. I do not trust President Obama as far as I can see him and dread the thought of him in the Oval Office for another 4 years! I am not particularly fond of GWB and he screwed up plenty, but at the time I considered him the lesser of evils. As you said above, Obama is an expert at lying and playing the blame game without taking any responsibility for his own screw ups. I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I vote Independent as both of the aforementioned parties are pale shadows of their former selves. Both will lie, cheat, and/or steal to do whatever it takes to get into office and stay there. All the while lining theirs and their cronies pockets with our tax dollars. I try to vote for the person I think is best qualified for the job and not the party.

Ed-NavDoc,

I could not agree with you more. For once someone on this site that talks without being indoctrinated by either side. I could not agree with you more that both parties are just a shell of what they once were, and I believe that both would happily ruin this country and tear it apart if it meant keeping themselves in power. The only fix I see for this is to impose term limits on both houses, it may not fix the problem but will get rid of the career politicians that have so poisoned the system. I also would not have a problem if another party or two would replace one or both that would raise us back to what we once were. But I do not see this happening without a civil war because neither party will ever give up their power.

Well spoken - and entirely accurate.

oh yes, Entirely turn out the lights Irene

I know your posts are lost on those that seriously need to consider them. The problem is that I don't think they really see an issue with having a "fourth" arm of government that weighs everything based on fundamentalist christian "values". That is, in effect, what Iran has... just a different Religion, different place and time.

Our vote scam is not as blatantly obvious as Iran yet but we are getting there.. Can you imagine what will happen when they lift the identification rule for voter registration that the Democrats are pushing for?? Since the powers put Obama in do you think we might get someone more popular next time like Ahrnold Schwarzenegger.. I know that they would have to pass a bill allowing a one time exception or change the Constitution like they want but I would vote for him.. The a$$ clowns running now are a joke and the Terminator will get my write in vote..

I see Obama as more of a dictator.We have lost more liberty under Obama than with Bush.You guys dont read much do you.

Did anyone notice this article is about Iran?

"The U.S. Is Just As Bad, blah, blah, blah."

You people have no clue what Theocratic government means for a country, especially when it's Islamic Theocracy.

"Well What About The Christian Taliban Here in the U.S. ???!!!!!!!"

I'm an atheist and I'm not worried about extremist Christians trying to 'take over' and create a theocracy here in the U.S. It hasn't happened, it isn't happening, and it won't happen. The Rick Santorums of our country are harmless little teddy bears compared to the brutish zealots of Islam.

"We have lost more liberty under Obama than with Bush."

I would say that's a toss-up. Patriot Act and no-fly list vs NDAA and airborne surveillance. Hard to choose.

Sad part is if it did matter after what happened last election only the hard line extremist are going to vote. I also think some of these people are payed to say those things and vote.

Scene from a Iranian news cast, this just in, all challengers defeated.(beheaded)

Dating anyone? ;)

Can I watch?

haha giggity

Or Mitt In-a-godda-da-vida-jad. Either one is okay with me.

Yeah but, remember, God gave them that land ;-). Pretty soon they'll be knocking at your front door and telling you they're taking your car because God gave it to them.

Genetically, Muslims of Palestine are largely descendants of Christians and Jews of the southern Levant and descendents of a population that lived there since before written history.

Since the Muslim raided in the 7th century leading to death of thousands of people or conversions to Islam resulted in Palestinians being transformed to Sunni Muslims.

There is a significant Palestinian Christian minority of various Christian denominations, as well as Druze and a small Samaritan community.

Palestinian Jews made up part of the population of Palestine prior to the creation of the State of Israel and very few identify as "Palestinian" today.

Destruction of their culture was achieved by the rape and enslavement of their women, and murder or conversion at the threat of death of their men by the Islamic raiders, resulted in Palestinians being linguistically and culturally Arab.

Hmmm, I thought this article was about Iranian intolerance of dissenting views, but JimOne and Tim McCain feel free to use it as a platform to spout their ignorant and irrelevant intolerance and bigotry. Israel is a strong American ally, you fools. God gave you America, or were the Indians here first?

Jim your as bad as all the dems here blaming bush for things happening now. Man up and own your actions.

I think the jews have enough problems being surrounded by muslims who want them dead.

Iran wants to get a nuke so they can destroy isreal and america, isreal is trying to stop them and you dont consider that helping america? The jews have helped in american conflicts in multiple ways one being inttelegince and another being covert opts. Long ago they had much more land then they do now but it was taken from them by muslim invasions. But no one stands up for the jews who are the most persicuted people in history.

They were attacked by 7 countries and the Palestinians at once in 1967 who sought Israels complete destruction. They wanted to kill all of the Jews.

The lands were seized as they were being used as launching pads for attacks on Israel. Anyone suggesting that Israel should return these lands also thinks Israel should be eliminated. The word

"Anti-Semite" comes to mind.

Albert Einstein put it this way:

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything"

The question is not first should we help Israel, the first question is what is in the best US interest. A nuclear Iran is the scariest thing I can imagine.

And, separately, are the Palestinians willing to engage in reasonable and meaningful dialogue? NO.

So, Tim McCain, when your next door neighbor is buying guns and telling you he wants to kill you, you first go offer him gifts so that "MAYBE" he will change his mind? Brilliant. Good luck with that.

Actually sonar guy, Israel started the Six Day War in 1967. It was during this conflict that the USS Liberty was attacked.

@ Noach, that is a gross misinterpretation of history. The USS Liberty was a case of mistaken identity on June 8th. The war started on the 5th. Anyway, what is your logic? The Arab states attacked Israel as retaliation for Israel attacking the US? Ridiculous.

Israel firing the first shots of the six-day war were completely justified. When you have multiple countries massing troops on your border, and statements like "Our main goal is the destruction of Israel" being made by then Egyptian president Nasser, striking first was the best choice.

@Gary, I was just correcting sonar guy's statement that the Arabs attacked. The attack on the Liberty happened during the Six Day War. There is still a lot of controversy over what really happened. I personally believe it was case of mistaken identity.

@Mike, I agree that Israel was justified for firing the first shots. I am sure the US would do the same if Canada and Mexico started massing their troops along its border.

FYI, I happen to be a staunch supporter of Israel.

FYI, I happen to be a staunch supporter of Israel.

Wow, thanks a lot for the clue on that!

You can write in anyone you choose! Of course, right after you do that, your hand is cut off ...

The REAL people in Iran, about 50% of whom are under 35 (or something close to that) want something really bizzare and very hard to understand.....FREEDOM...FREEDOM....FREEDOM (um, and that includes women having a status better than a dog, which is what they have now). The crazies have these people by the throat just as surely as Saddam had Iraqis by the throat. We aren't intersted in any fight with these people, so Israel should put that, getting us into a war with them business, where the sun doesn't shine. Period!!!

your kidding right free and fair? Did you forget what happened last election? Nothing is free and fair in that country as long as the ayatollah's and the clergy stay in politcal power.

Why are you always upvoting your own comments, sonar guy?

so are the Palestinians....

not you though...you teach your children to love everyone, right?

Camel dung, good one.

War is out of the question and sanctions, according to intelligence, ARE working, slowly but surely. Part 2 is to get Israel to start talking and negotiating in good faith, and stop the settlements.

There have been no discussions of widespread bombings that could injure civilians. In fact, if you read anything at all about the proposed action against Iran, it has been explicitly stated that the goal is to minimize civilian casualties by carrying out tactical targeted strikes on military and nuclear research facilities.

I also don't agree with an armed strike against Iran, but that doesn't mean we need to make up reasons to oppose it, there are plenty of actual reasons.

Israel want another war so badly they can taste it. Well if they want another war, I say give them what they want. A few less warmongering Bible-thumping idiots in this world will benefit everyone.

Tim, I have to agree totally about the settlements. You can't say that you support a two-state solution on one hand and the settler movement on the other. How many of the settlements are as large as they are because they are great real estate deals? Even in the depressed world housing market of today, where else can you get a three-bedroom, two-bath house for $40K or so? And lots of "free" security in your "gated community"!

@ben Noach, I see. But next time you offer tidbits of history for technical accuracy, you may want to consider what point it makes in the context of the discussion.