Hope he stays alive
Dude, Khatami and Rouhani are still alive, what the everliving blaze are you on about?
It’s just complete ignorance of the Iranian political system and at some level, a buy-in on the media’s relentless anti-Iranian propaganda.
Far be it from me to defend a theocracy, or Mullahs, but…wait, I won’t they’re horrible.
However, Iran’s theocracy is far less insidious than the Gulf Monarchies, so I guess it’s better by default?
Oh, and no candidate is allowed to run unless they are signed off on by the Ayatollah, so there’s that caveat as well.
More and more I feel we just transported the worst of reddit to lemmy. All the crap, none of the painstakingly built community