[According to the author, Iran will be a perpetual enemy of both the U.S. and Israel. Yet, prophecy clearly identifies Iran as becoming THE key nation in beginning a time of peace in the middle east. It is IRAN that will organize and finance the construction of the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem. We'll see how long this "enemy" status lasts....]

2/5/2008
Mark Williams

It is with optimism that I usually regard elections. Win or lose, they are an opportunity for the voice of the people to be heard, but an exception to this will be the Iranian “elections” this March. Elections in Iran are neither free nor fair. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rise to the Presidency in 2005 serves as a striking example.

Even by the regime’s own pre-poll records, Ahmadinejad was not even close to first place. So how does a previously-unheard-of Revolutionary Guards commander with no proven success in politics and no pre-poll showing get more than 50 percent of the votes in an election widely boycotted by the vast majority of the Iranian population? Simple. He doesn’t.

Ahmadinejad was not elected by the Iranian people. He was appointed by the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.