Re: Moderates win big in Iran's elections
My Iranian friend always maintained that Rafsanji was an immensely corrupt politician and blamed him for maintaining a culture of corruption at the highest levels.
My friend wasn't biased against the moderates either... he's from a Sunni Irani Kurdish family that was exiled during the revolution by the hardliners.
If these allegations he made against Rafsanjani are true, then don't hold your breath for an Irani economic revival.
At any rate, even back when Ahmednejad won, many people said that he won not through having majority support, but because people refused to vote for Rafsanjani. It seems that the people who made protests votes for Ahmednejad ro who abstained last time are voting against him now.