Reza Aslan discusses the Iranian election with Washington Times reporter Eli Lake and makes a rather startling assertion — that Iran’s electoral system provides “greater diversity of religious and political thought” than the American electoral system. The bizarre praise for Iranian democracy comes in the segment below, which includes Aslan offering an elaborate rebuttal to those who would criticize the Iranian regime for hand-picking the candidates that can run in the presidential election:

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