January 25, 2004

DID BLUTO BECOME AN IRANIAN SENATOR?:

Iranian parliament approves urgent bill seeking to restrict hard-liner council (ALI AKBAR DAREINI, January 25, 2004, Associated Press)

Pro-reform legislators fired a new volley in their latest political crisis with Iran's hard-liners Sunday, passing a law aimed at restricting the power of a council that conservatives used to bar liberal candidates from running in elections.

The law poses a challenge to the Guardian Council, the unelected body controlled by hard-liners that has broad powers to overrule decisions of the elected government. The council could nullify the new law, but that would likely stoke the crisis.

The reformist-dominated parliament approved the bill, categorized as "triple-urgent" -- the highest designation of importance for legislation, used when the parliament feels that the country is in great political or military danger.

It was the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that the parliament has approved a triple-urgency bill.


Wasn't Delta House put on triple urgent probation?

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 25, 2004 09:26 AM
Comments

I think it was "double-secret" probation, but the idea is similar. More importantly, though, if I send an email message with Outlook, I can only mark it as just-plain-urgent! I recommend that the government award a $2 billion grant to Microsoft to form a committee to investigate possible steps toward beginning a dialogue aimed at bridging the "urgency gap."

Posted by: Guy T. at January 25, 2004 10:07 AM

In the spirit of Orwell, triple-urgent is tripleplusgood.

Posted by: jd watson at January 25, 2004 12:33 PM

Can we expect to see Otis Day and the Knights with play dates in Tehran any time in the near future?

Posted by: John at January 25, 2004 01:35 PM
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