Ayatollah Sistani is reported to have dismissed that letter as one written under pressure from the Americans but also to have said that he might change his mind if a United Nations team came to Iraq and verified the judgment that holding direct elections was unreasonable in the time frame.
"The decision of the NPC Standing Committee has deprived people with different political views of the right to run for election and be elected by imposing unreasonable restrictions, thereby perpetuating 'handpicked politics'".
"But showing your driver's license to have an honest election is not unreasonable".
When Merthyr Tydfil activists decided that their MP, another troublemaker called SO (Stephen Daviesshoulduld ought to down at the 1970 election on the not unreasonable grounds that he was 83, he stood as an independent – and won.
Speaking of the Chilcot inquiry this week, David Cameron said: "It would be unreasonable to postpone it beyond the next election," with his eyes clearly on the prize rather than a genuine interest in justice.
Why else would it hold elections during the Iraqi bombing and chemical attacks when the opportunity and excuses to skip the odd elections were ample and not unreasonable.
Be reasonable in response to the unreasonable: this is what voters in the Labour election are told.
This struck me for a few reasons: one, because mainstream news has been covering stories that, before this election cycle, would have seemed completely unreasonable and hilariously far-fetched.
It is not unreasonable to suggest that prices will soften further with the Mayoral election and Brexit having an impact on confidence".
Quoting a standard set in New Jersey election laws, he wrote that "it would not be unreasonable, arbitrary or capricious" for the Election Law Enforcement Commission to regard the $885,000 as "coordinated expenditures" and count it toward Mr. Schundler's spending cap.
