we will vote for hashemi to save our country

We need to move fast. The tides are in favor of Chimpanze.



may be not all of us agree with rest of this, but we will all vote for hashemi to save our country.



please take a look at these news and read the rest of our reasons:

[1] http://baztab.com/news/23616.php

[2] http://rooydadnews.com/archives/000654.php

[3] http://www.emrouz.info/ShowItem.aspx?ID=3270&p=1

[4] http://www.chaay.persianblog.com/1384_3_chaay_archive.html#3668003

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Rafsanjani is indeed far from our ideals, but he is also noticeably better than Ahmadinejad. Here are a few reasons:

1- He opened up the country after the war, to some good extent, on cultural and economic fronts (not on political side though). He rarely was a big fan

of cracking down on social liberties, and they matter, they are the foundation of any interaction in the society needed for political mobilization.

2- His economic performance is towards free market ideas. He steals of course, but also has done some contributions to Iran's economy, after the war. His records on economic front are far from all negatives.

3- He allowed for relatively free election on 97 (there was still quite a bit of cheating, but he could have easily sided with conservatives and saved them from Khatami)

4- He has a reasonably good team of people who can make contributions, at least on economic front.

5- His motivations in this round are more aligned leaving a good name for himself. He already has all the money he could have wanted, and has experienced height of power, so he will be a bit more into listening to people.

6- He is a savvy politician and wouldn't steer the country towards confrontation with U.S., in fact he is the only one with power and motivation to ease the tensions there.

7- His team and himself have made a lot of mistakes in their first round of experience, therefore they would make fewer similar mistakes on the

points in which they have good intentions (which includes most of economics).



These are strong arguments in favor of Rafsanjani in comparing him with

the Ahmadinejad, who gets a very strong negative mark on every point I

raised. But there is a more subtle, but not less important issue at stake:



If Ahmadinejad gets the power, the conservatives will consolidate all the power, including the state department, and from the next election, there will be no real election. This time, using all their forces, they could cheat maximum in the order of 1-2 million votes (in 1997 that was about 3 million). If they have the state department, there is no stopping,

elections become meaningless (like what they were in Iraq, and are in

Syria, Egypt etc: one candidate, 100\% of votes, 98\% participation....).

The system will then be locked in a new state, with no exit strategy,

except some type of revolution or foreign intervention. Even revolution needs

some level of social freedom to be allowed to grow, fundamentalists won't

allow that for quite a while, not to mention that our experience shows revolutions are not necessarily helpful. (and I guess you need no argument on dangers of American regime change scenarios).



In short, besides all the horrible things that will happen in the

society and in every day life of individuals , should Ahmadinejad come into

power, the system will also tip into a completely hopeless mode.





Good points. Suggest talking points for normal people. Here is a

starter for some points against Ahmadinejad, add more:



- Restrictions on social freedoms: mingling of boys and girls,

separation of public sphers of life etc.

- Ideologic criteria in management team and therefore losing the

expertise of capable people, resulting in more eco- He is the choice of the leader and the militia, and all the ultra-conservatives who have messed the country for so many years (Mesbah etc).
- The move towards removal of remainders of any democratic process: if
they have the state department besides Guardian council, we will get 100\%
vote for sons of Khamenei et al, in elections which bring 95\% of electorates to the polls (as used to happen in Iraq, and happens in Syria, Egypt etc).
- The possibility of military confrontation with the U.S.
- That they have planned on making a "clean" picture of the guy, while
he is fully backed by the most corrupt parts of the system and is going to work for them.

I am afraid the possibility of the threat is more serious than we may imagine. I was talking with a friend in Tehran an hour ago, a Doctor working in poor areas of Tehran, and while very active, he was bitter on the fact that most of his clients and workers in the hospital are going to vote for Ahmadinejad, because the choice is being framed as a race
between "poor" and "rich".