Originally Posted by badgoalie85

secondly, regarding the implications of the result: on one hand it's terrible that ahmadinead "won" because he's pretty pro-war and anti-everything else and is bad for the world in the same way bush was. on the other hand the fact that he "won" might turn out to be good because it might nudge the iranian people further towards a revolution of sorts which has the possibility of leading to the creation of the first true, functional democratic republic in the middle east. the younger generations in iran are well educated, boisterous, and ready for a change. things are getting better i believe but it's going to be at it's worst right before the big change happens.