The outcome of Iran’s parliamentary elections, which took place last friday, has never been in doubt. The victors will doubtless be drawn from among the constellation of officially-approved fundamentalists. However this is not to say that the contest will be altogether without meaning. Elections in Iran have always been a higher-stakes game that the ritual and rigged plebiscites favoured by many Arab autocracies.
上週五伊朗舉行了議會選舉，對於選舉結果，人們從未有過任何疑問。選舉的勝利者無疑將來自得到伊朗官方認同的原教旨主義者陣營。然而，這並不意味著此次選舉完全沒有意義。與許多阿拉伯獨裁國家更喜歡的那種儀式化的、受操縱的投票相比，伊朗選舉向來是風險更高的遊戲。
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