# Iran election goes against Ahmadinejad

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857 "2006-12-20T01:07:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857/1 "2006-12-20T01:07:07Z")

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Story [here.](http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/A2B68F48-0826-40EC-A196-5DF742E49616.html) Will this make any difference in Iran, or to Iran-U.S. relations?

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**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857/2 "2006-12-20T01:19:56Z")

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[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]  
Story [here.](http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/12/A2B68F48-0826-40EC-A196-5DF742E49616.html) Will this make any difference in Iran, or to Iran-U.S. relations?  
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Not until you get rid of the wasted space that inhabits the White House at the moment.

Face it, till BushCo are gone, there’s not much hope in political solutions of any kind. Excluding the “Bend-over-with-no-lube and enjoy it” school of diplomacy of course. Doubt you’ll find many volunteers for that type of treatment though…

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857/3 "2006-12-20T04:27:48Z")

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[QUOTE=RedFury]  
Excluding the “Bend-over-with-no-lube and enjoy it” school of diplomacy of course. Doubt you’ll find many volunteers for that type of treatment though…  
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[bites lip on Iranian/Islamic ethnic joke]

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**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857/4 "2006-12-20T12:06:24Z")

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Well, maybe at least Ahmadinejad will be too busy trying to keep his job to have any more Holocaust Denial Conferences for awhile. And, while diplomacy and foreign policy seem to be deep mysteries to the current U.S. administration, maybe this will at least make Iran a little less shiny and attractive to the A.D.D. occupant of the White House long enough for us to have our own elections.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iran-election-goes-against-ahmadinejad/384857/5 "2006-12-20T15:50:48Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunrazor]  
Well, maybe at least Ahmadinejad will be too busy trying to keep his job to have any more Holocaust Denial Conferences for awhile. And, while diplomacy and foreign policy seem to be deep mysteries to the current U.S. administration, maybe this will at least make Iran a little less shiny and attractive to the A.D.D. occupant of the White House long enough for us to have our own elections.  
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Or maybe he’ll read it as a weakening of their resolve and it will just whet his appetite.