Re: A letter to Chavez

On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

1989, the year when Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (acting commander in chief of the armed forces in 1988-1989) — the man defeated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the runoff last year — assumed the Presidency of Iran. What did these university students want the Iranian people to do last year — vote for the man who was the President in 1989?

So you’re advocating lesser-evil electoral politics? But not in the
US, right?

You seem to be at odds with most, Iranian leftists on the Ahmadinejad
question. Does that make you uncomfortable?

Doug

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