Human Rights activist and former Iranian prisoner, Shiva Mahbobi discusses the implications of the Iranian presidential election and why it’s an oxymoron to call it an election when there is no free choice, no women, no opposition so long as the Guardian Council chooses the candidates. What hope for human rights defenders in Iran with a hardliner certain to win.

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