[T]hose wishing to stand for a seat in the Majlis must be approved by the Council of the Guardians whose members are named by the "Supreme Guide". Those elected won t be considered elected unless the "Supreme Guide" approves. In an arrangement that might
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In Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in the Wonderland” a visual perversion deforms people and objects so that they look like what they are meant to be but are not quite the same. The fantasy device used by the English poet in his comic tale has given its name to a neurological condition known as the Alice in wonderland syndrome (AIWS) which causes an incorrect perception of external reality. The four decades’ long experiment that Iran has had with the Khomeinist ideology is a big-size illustration of that syndrome.