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Iran: Nationalist feelings only for election time

Categories: Iran, Elections, Politics

Iranian state-run broadcasters are persuading people to vote in coming parliamentary election [1] by Friday, 2 March. They also playback some nationalist songs and hymns. Spidermard, an Iranian user, tweets [2][fa]: ‘Only by election time the state realizes that the country is called Iran. The other times it is Islamic Republic’.