Iranian elections are “non-elections”
At an American Enterprise Institute discussion on “The Ahmadinejad Presidency and its Impact on Iranian Civil and Political Society,” Iran Nameh editor Hormoz Hekmat says that “everyone knows there are no political parties in Iran” and refers to the Iranian elections as “non-elections” in which the elected parties have “nothing to do” with the people’s designs for their government. (0:44)
May 19, 2008
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