If a majority voted for the same wrongs and abuses committed by the current regime, would that make them okay?

May have read you a bit wrong, JKJ, but rather than turning to the American style of Christianity, believe it would be better for Iran to try to relive the process which had early Iranians or late Persians accepting the more democratic elements of Hellenistic Socratic Reasoning.

Regards, BB, WA.

"There are also many problems with the official statistics that have been announced. According to these statistics, there was more than a 100 per cent turnout in 170 cities."

It is not clear if the election was conducted legitimately but it is clear that many people would prefer that social unrest destroy Iran before it can emerge as a significant military power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X8fK0A0pY0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_l2uOZUquU

Cansa it is clear to me that people power in Iran is threatening the dominance of the strong religious stranglehold the Theocracy has over them.
Any country in todays world that treats it's women as second class citizens cannot expect to go on unnoticed when they can all see via the internet how many other countries have come so far with women's rights.
I wish Iran and Democracy all the luck in the world.

Like you, Moondoggy, we really would prefer change in Iraq, but certainly without war.

Please remember that back in 1981, America encouraged Iraq with added help to knock out Iran, but Iran with the loss of nearly a hundred thousand troops, still stood fast as she was appealed to for an armistice.

It is quite possible that Obama's historical knowledge would believe the same as we do, that Iran would still have descendants conscious of Hellenistic intrusion into Iran before she accepted Islam.

It was just before she fully accepted Islam that Persia/Iran helped construct the wording that helped Thomas Aquinas lift Christianity out of the Dark Ages.

It is evident also that a well known Iranian woman judge must have also known such history when she mentioned that Iran could find its own democracy in its own time, but not fashioned in the American Way.

Iran's crisis of civilization(Part 1) will be resolved neither by blind imitation of an obviously defective Western culture nor by retreat into medieval ignorance which often seems to be the direction taken by religious and political elites in Iran. The answer to the dilemma faced by Iran was enunciated on the very threshold of the crisis of modernity in the late 19th century, in the clearest and most compelling language, by a distinguished Son of Iran Who is today honoured in every continent of the world, but sadly not in the land of His birth--except by a religious minority now referred to by Iranian political and religious authorities as heretical.

Persia's poetic genius captures the irony of the position of this religious minority: "I searched the wide world over for my Beloved, while my Beloved was waiting for me in my own home." The world's appreciation of Bahá'u'lláh, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith, came perhaps most explicitly into focus on 29 May 1992, the centenary of His death, when the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies met in solemn session to pay tribute to Him, to His teachings and to the services rendered to humanity by the community He founded. On that occasion, the Speaker of the Chamber and spokespersons from every party rose, successively, to express their profound admiration of One who was described in their addresses as the Author of "the most colossal religious work written by the pen of a single Man", a message that "reaches out to humanity as a whole, without petty differences of nationality, race, limits or belief".