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TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's hardline Basij militia has written to UN secretary general Kofi Annan to ask if the Islamic republic can send observers to the US presidential election in November, a government newspaper said.

"By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders," a Basij official, Said Toutunshian, told the Iran newspaper.

"We want to say to the whole world that the presence of observers from the Islamic republic of Iran, the most democratic regime in the world, is necessary to guarantee the smooth running of the American elections."

The Basij is a volunteer army attached to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, the Islamic republic's ideological army.

Predominantly Western groups frequently send observers to pass judgment on the "democratic status" of elections in other countries.

On Monday, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement that weekend legislative elections in Belarus fell "significantly short" of democratic standards.


Gotta love how they call the themselfes Most democratic >>regime<<

 

[gofreak]

Hehehe yeah...

On a related note, is it true the EU is sending observers, after what happened in Florida in 2000? I thought I read that somewhere..

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Well all goverments are regimes. Regime just refers to the type of goverment. Their claim appears specious but, it's not.


But back to the point, yeah that is funny.

 

[Nerevar]

and people wonder why the US doesn't take the UN seriously anymore ...

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Hehehe yeah...

On a related note, is it true the EU is sending observers, after what happened in Florida in 2000? I thought I read that somewhere..

There is discussion about it but, I don't know if it would happen. I don't know if the US will have UN observers but, I think it wouldn't be a bad thing. Everything is up for improvement and needs to be observed from the outside.

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

and people wonder why the US doesn't take the UN seriously anymore ...

 

[Pimpwerx]

and people wonder why the US doesn't take the UN seriously anymore ...

Why? Because of themselves? The US is as much a part of the problem with the UN as any other member state, so I still think the admin's disdain for the UN smacks of hypocrisy. PEACE.

 

[amrum]

Hehehe yeah...

On a related note, is it true the EU is sending observers, after what happened in Florida in 2000? I thought I read that somewhere..

TRUE

http://www.osce.org/odihr/elections/field_activities/?election=2004us

 

[impirius]

"By this symbolic request, we want to ridicule the so-called democratic slogans of the American leaders," a Basij official, Said Toutunshian, told the Iran newspaper.

"We want to say to the whole world that the presence of observers from the Islamic republic of Iran, the most democratic regime in the world, is necessary to guarantee the smooth running of the American elections."

Jokes aren't funny once you EXPLAIN THEM, you dummy

 

[MetatronM]

and people wonder why the US doesn't take the UN seriously anymore ...

Why? It's not like the UN wrote this. And it's not like the UN said ok.

 

[BILL CLINTON]

Why? Because of themselves? The US is as much a part of the problem with the UN as any other member state, so I still think the admin's disdain for the UN smacks of hypocrisy. PEACE.

All governments are corrupt.

One big organization corralling many governments together has no chance to be anything but corrupt.

 

[Ripclawe]

reverse psychology!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...&u=/ap/20041019/ap_on_el_pr/iran_us_elections

TEHRAN, Iran - The head of Iran's security council said on Tuesday the re-election of President Bush (news - web sites) was in Tehran's best interests, despite the administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's nuclear ambitions.

Historically, Democrats have harmed Iran more than Republicans, said Hasan Rowhani, head of the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body.


"We haven't seen anything good from Democrats," Rowhani told state-run television in remarks that, for the first time in recent decades, saw Iran openly supporting one U.S. presidential candidate over another.


"We should not forget that most sanctions and economic pressures were imposed on Iran during the time of Clinton," Rowhani said of the former Democratic president. "And we should not forget that during Bush's era — despite his hard-line and baseless rhetoric against Iran — he didn't take, in practical terms, any dangerous action against Iran."


Though Iran generally does not publicly wade into U.S. presidential politics, it has a history of preferring Republicans over Democrats, who tend to press human rights issues.


"We do not desire to see Democrats take over," Rowhani said when asked if Iran was supporting Kerry against Bush