With the neverending flow of news out of Ottawa it's been difficult to keep up with any other stories. It's tough when the papers and newscasts are all Adscam, all the time. You'd think the rest of the world stopped turning. That's too bad, because there's still a lot of important other stuff going on.
Case in point: Matters in Iran are about to potentially get a lot worse. The Islamic Republic's president from 1989 to 1997, the extremist terror-supporting Islamist Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, has announced he is running in next month's Iranian "elections."
This isn't so much a political comeback as it is an official return to the forefront. A lot of Iranian experts will tell you Rafsanjani, now 70, never stopped running the country after he left the presidency. He has been heading what's called the Expediency Council, which arbitrates fights between Iran's "democratically" "elected" "parliament" and the gang of hardline mullahs known as the Guardians Council. (You can guess who they normally side with.)
Rafsanjani will undoubtedly win the vote next month. When he does prepare for bad news ahead. He will be a destabilizing influence, and will ratched up the anti-American rhetoric. Relations between the countries couldn't get much worse, but they likely will with this radical ayatollah at the helm.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 9:20 PM
