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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14 days
Masoud Pezeshkian, the reformist candidate who advocated moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff in Iran against a hard-line rival, according to results released by the interior ministry on Saturday. nyti.ms/3xMgPZc
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rolf @kiparet.bsky.social · 14 days
What on earth is a "reformist" in a hardened theocracy?
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Kyle Monday @akmonday.bsky.social · 14 days
he kind of sucks too
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@surfingthepast.bsky.social · 14 days
How long before Iran is more democratic and less theocratic than the United States,
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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 14 days
It'll be a while; this election was only for President, but the Supreme Leader ayatollahs are still ultimately in charge.
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 14 days
It’s a good thing the final word in the us government doesn’t come down to an unelected council of reactionaries
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Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social · 14 days
sorry someone just handed me a memo
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@surfingthepast.bsky.social · 14 days
At least they are moving in the right direction, whereas we are moving in the radical far right direction
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Andy Berry 🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻 @andyberry.bsky.social · 14 days
Like Gorbachev with the USSR?