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The President of Iran and his fundamentalist buddies were dealt a blow this week in that country’s mid-term elections. Non-fundamentalist candidates won the majority of seats in municipal councils, as well as on the traditionally fundie-controlled “Assembly of Experts” that aids and advises Iran’s supreme religious leader.
Of course, this being Iran, the foes of Ahmadinejad are still basically religious conservatives. True reformists gained very little in the elections, but on a pragmatic level conservatives are still better than hardliners. Read more on good old Al-Jazeera.
