Nicholas Schmidle: Hooshang Amirahmadi’s campaign for the Iranian Presidency.

Elections attract their share of wide-eyed idealists, and, with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad nearing the end of his second term as Iran’s President, politicians are jostling to take his place. Most of the possible contenders are hard-liners of one sort or another. But Hooshang Amirahmadi, a moderate, sixty . . . (Subscription required.)