Elections today to replace him.....so far the anti-Israeli candidate is in the lead.

(You're welcome, Frank!)

HockeyDad wrote:

I'm going to miss that charismatic, smelly lil' greaseball.😞

bloody spaniard wrote:

Drafter got banned?

teedubbya wrote:

If we no longer have to say his name how will we clear out throats?

teedubbya wrote:

You'll just have to Netanyahoo!

HockeyDad wrote:

Elections today to replace him.....so far the anti-Israeli candidate is in the lead.

(You're welcome, Frank!)

HockeyDad wrote:

Why blame Israel for elections in Iran? Akmanajad is heading out. Of office and there has not been war. For once be happy people aren't dying due to politicians sabre rattling.

HockeyDad wrote:

Why you clever little jew baiter you.🤨

bloody spaniard wrote:

common ground. I love it when people live.

frankj1 wrote:

common ground. I love it when people live.

frankj1 wrote:

The down side to all this is we know have to come up with all new rhetoric to get the war started and spend billions of US dollars and get a bunch of US servicemen killed.

We're watching the whole "Akmenajihad is the hidden Imam who is going to nuke Israel" narrative go away. I mean really.....the hidden Imam getting term-limited out of office! Now we gotta have the US and Israeli military industrial complexes teach us the name of some new camel jockey that we need to kill at all costs.

HockeyDad wrote:

I can think of around 4 million people you would rather they lived someplace else....at gunpoint in a forced march if need be!

HockeyDad wrote:

The down side to all this is we know have to come up with all new rhetoric to get the war started and spend billions of US dollars and get a bunch of US servicemen killed.

We're watching the whole "Akmenajihad is the hidden Imam who is going to nuke Israel" narrative go away. I mean really.....the hidden Imam getting term-limited out of office! Now we gotta have the US and Israeli military industrial complexes teach us the name of some new camel jockey that we need to kill at all costs.

HockeyDad wrote:

Problem: A moderate reformist is winning easily!




(Reuters) - Moderate cleric Hassan Rohani took a solid lead over conservative rivals on Saturday in preliminary vote counting in Iran's presidential election in what could be the makings of a surprise victory over favored hardliners.

The outcome is unlikely to transform relations between Iran and the outside world, the Islamic Republic's disputed policy on developing nuclear power or its support of Syria's president in the civil war there - all sensitive security matters that are the domain of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But the president does wield important influence in decision-making in the sprawling Shi'ite Muslim nation and major OPEC state of 75 million and could bring a change from the confrontational style of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was constitutionally barred from seeking a third consecutive term.

Rohani's wide early margin revealed a major reservoir of pro-reform sentiment whereby many voters seized a chance to repudiate the dominant hardline elite over Iran's economic woes, international isolation and crackdowns on personal freedoms despite restrictions on candidate choice and campaigning.

If he wins, Rohani, a moderate who is a former chief nuclear negotiator known for his conciliatory approach, has signaled he will promote a foreign policy based on "constructive interaction with the world" and enact a "civil rights charter" at home.

HockeyDad wrote: