Wampum

The Jebheye Mosharekate Iran-e Eslaami (Islamic Iran Participation Front), which was headed by Mohammad Reza Khatami (the brother of Mohammad Khatami, the fifth President of Iran) until the election of Mohsen Mirdamadi, at the prior congress, just held their 10th Congress.

All the obvious reasonable things were said, about temporary suspension of enrichment, about anti-semitism and the Shoah, about Iraq, about the tea in China, but the most important thing was left unsaid. What will George Bush and Dick Cheney do to keep their man -- Ahmadi-Nejad -- and the conservative parties -- the Abadgaran, the followers of Yazdi, factions of the Revolutionary Guards -- in control of the 8th Majlis and the Iranian State?

Their biggest electoral political problem in obtaining a working plurality in the 8th Majlis is to counter the advantage Bush/Cheney will give 7th Majlis incumbents.

Ideas anyone?