Although Hassan Rouhani failed to deliver any of his first-term promises as the president of the Islamic Republic (I.R.) of Iran, he was reinstated by voters in the May 19 election.  Apparently, he was elected for a second term because the choice for the Iranian people was between bad and worse.  Further, he was more vocal this time around in criticizing his opponent, hardliner Ebrahim Raisi, and making many electoral promises, mainly opening the doors to international investors, improving living and economic conditions, providing freedom and social liberties, dismantling the widely spread economic corruption in the governing system, and so on.  However, everything he and other candidates said and promised during the electoral campaign was basically designed to save the rotten regime from falling apart.  All candidates, moderates or fundamentalists, were and are regime insiders, and loyal to the supreme leader. The presidential elections in Iran are processes...(Read Full Article)