https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/...column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news "But with a presidential election coming Friday, many middle-class Iranians see things in a different way. Disillusioned and cynical, they are frustrated by years of high unemployment, inflation that eats relentlessly into living standards and widespread corruption. And they are frustrated with a state widely regarded as ossified and out of touch, a mixture of a quasi-socialist economy dominated by the military and clergy, and elective institutions supervised by conservative clerical bodies that have the final say on legislation and candidates for political office. Veterans of the 1979 revolution, like Ayatollah Khamenei, are still in charge, reinforcing a rigid revolutionary ideology and doing their best to resist pressures for change. With no obvious younger generation of leaders, the country also faces a looming succession crisis." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Let's all pray for the end of this diseased, cancerous, illegitimate, fake regime of thugs and murderers. The sooner it falls, the better for the middle east and world.
