"Free" and "Fair" Like Fidel

clipped from hotair.com The BBC reports today on the election run-off in Iran, in which the “conservatives” prevailed over the “reformists” and now hold an overwhelming majority in their parliament. Unfortunately, Auntie Beeb reports this as if it wasn’t a foregone conclusion, thanks to election-rigging by the Guardian Council. The British broadcaster glosses over the fact that the GC disqualified almost 2,000 so-called reformers before the elections: Iran’s conservatives have consolidated their victory in the country’s parliamentary elections, after taking more seats in a run-off. Many reformist candidates had been disqualified from standing in the election by the country’s non-elected Guardian Council. Many? Even href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88148974">NPR puts the number on it, showing the scope of the GC’s rigging to get exactly the result the BBC reports. These elections are as free and fair as Cuba’s, where the only people allowed on the ballot are those who pass the Fidel Castro test of loyalty to the junta.