(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Michael Segall - In the elections for the Iranian parliament, just 354 candidates were allowed to compete for 290 seats, out of 5,382 who had registered. Ayatollah Khamenei called on the people to come out to vote and "plant...a fist in the face of the enemy." In a sign of shifting alliances, the radical Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, once considered Ahmadinejad's mentor, said: "the Iranian public indeed elected the president but in fact was deceived by him....Many realized that they made a mistake in voting for him....We must learn a lesson from the past and not repeat our mistakes." IDF Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael (Mickey) Segall is a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center.
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