There is little doubt that infighting in Iran after the 2009 election blocked its acceptance of a generous and constructive offer related to its research reactor.
After Republicans — their numbers swollen by the 2010 election — blocked a confirmation vote, he waited more than six months before trying again.
We stood up to Kris Kobach repeatedly this election, blocking him from disenfranchising voters and manipulating election outcomes.
Last month, however, the opposition managed to unite and to form a pre-election block, "For a Just Kazakhstan", offering a new constitution to change the country into a parliamentary republic and to end corruption.
But Republicans, newly empowered by their big gains in the 2010 midterm elections, blocked him.
"The holy warriors have to defeat this evil project, carry out operations against enemy centers, prevent people from participating in elections, and block all major and minor roads before Election Day".
The Brotherhood broke its promise not to run a presidential candidate, and the judges of the election commission blocked its first choice, Mr. Shater.
Whoever replaces Mr. Kan will face a divided Parliament where the upper house is in the hands of the opposition Liberal Democrats, who seem intent to force an early election by blocking passage of whatever agenda he puts forward.
Last week, access to the Web site of Mr. Rafsanjani, who is widely perceived as having supported Mir Hussein Moussavi against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the 2009 election, was blocked in Iran.
Election officials blocked the candidacy for Parliament of a former presidential bodyguard, Mykola Melnichenko, who has implicated President Leonid D. Kuchma in the disappearance and possible murder of a journalist, Georgy Gongadze.
