So. \u00c2\u00a0Now that the Iranians have elected the “moderate” of the Cleric-approved candidates…<\/p>\n
… either showing a difference between this moderate and the reformer who supposedly had an election stolen and brought on the Green Revolution of Protests– that one is not considered a threat to the ruling Clerical oligarchy and the other became such –, or showing that Ahmajenidad won after all…<\/p>\n
Or… something going on in internal Iranian politics<\/a> that is worth a deep Kremlinogolical study. \u00c2\u00a0He has a court summons. \u00c2\u00a0Interesting.<\/p>\n One of those three.<\/p>\n What’s the next international election whose dynamics are not wholly translatable and understandable to my “idiosyncratic and eccentric” American vantage point? \u00c2\u00a0Well, take a look at the \u00c2\u00a0Mayor of Moscow<\/a>.<\/p>\n Well, it’s full of eccentric personalities, after we get past the “United Russia” Putin-head, and assorted Communist Party and controlled opposition figures. \u00c2\u00a0Without looking too far into him, I will just assume that this guy<\/a> is the equivalent of our Vampire Candidate<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Thought maybe I’m not giving him enough credit and he has some “Pussy Riot” political dissident qualities with him:<\/p>\n Thrash metal musician and member of the nationalist opposition; ran unsuccessfully for mayor of the Khimki and Zhukovsky districts of Moscow Oblast in 2012 and 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n Hm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So. \u00c2\u00a0Now that the Iranians have elected the “moderate” of the Cleric-approved candidates… … either showing a difference between this moderate and the reformer who supposedly had an election stolen and brought on the Green Revolution of Protests– that one is not considered a threat to the ruling Clerical oligarchy and the other became such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12181,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12158\/revisions\/12181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}