Rouhani back to office to continue with his snail-pace transformation of the Islamic republic | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

In a spectacular show of the democratic will of a nation against the entrenched theocratic institutions of a state, the overwhelming majority of Iranians have voted Hassan Rouhani back to office to continue with his snail-pace transformation of the Islamic republic from a deeply ideological bastion of militant Islamism into a major regional cornerstone of economic…