Quote Originally Posted by iasscarra
Sorry mate he was not placed on ballot by supreme council. The supreme council have no weight in this regard, but maybe you are getting mixed up with the fact that supreme council DID elect him ........ a bit familiar maybe there is a hint of United States Electoral College voting....... what is the difference with the US voting system ?....... also the term Mullahs means literially a muslim teacher as oppse to your take on mullahs

Sorry back but he was placed on the ballot, the supreme council decides who is acceptable to be placed on the ballot

The Guardian Council of the Constitution (Persian: شورای نگهبان قانون اساسی) is a high office within the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran which has the authority to interpret the constitution and to determine if the laws passed by the Mails (parliament) are constitutional. As such, the Council itself is not a legislative body, but it has veto power over the Iranian parliament. Its members are composed of Islamic clerics and lawyers. In function it is similar to a Constitutional Court.

Six members of the Council are clerics selected by the Supreme Leader, who serves as Iran's Head of State. The other six members are lawyers proposed by Iran's head of judicial branch (selected in turn by the Supreme Leader), and voted in by the Mails. Members are elected for six years on a phased basis, so that half the membership changes every three years.

As mentioned, the council also holds veto power over all legislation approved by the Mails. It can drop a law based on two accounts: being against Islamic laws, or being against the constitution. While all the members vote on the laws being compatible with the constitution, only the six clerics vote on them being compatible with Islam.

If any law is rejected, it will be passed back to the Mails for correction. If the Mails and the Council of Guardians cannot decide on a case, it is passed up to the Expediency Council for a final decision.

All candidates of parliamentary or presidency elections, as well as candidates for the Assembly of Experts, have to be qualified by the Guardian Council in order to run in the election. This is based on a controversial interpretation of the constitution and has led to numerous bitter political debates in Iran.

I don't have the "facts" mixed up at all, to compare these 12 Muslim thugs to the US electoral collage is way way way out there.