Whoever wins the presidency will bow toAyatullah Khamenei, whose portrait dominates a wall at the Interior Ministry
The Iranian presidential election, scheduled for June 14, is increasingly being viewed by outside observers as a choice between one fairly colorless candidate entirely subordinate to the Supreme Leader, and one or two other fairly colorless candidates, slightly less hard-line, but also completely subordinate to the wishes of the Supreme Leader. Why pay attention to such an election at all, and what does it matter who wins?
We know one thing for certain about contemporary Iranian politics: there is only one man in the Islamic Republic whose decisions matter when it comes...
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