I always like seeing evidence. Can you show it to me?
Sure.
First off, there's no way to compare Gulf and Jordanian presidential elections to Iran - that's because they don't have them, and Iran does.
Hamas, incidentally, was elected.
I hope those facts aren't in dispute; if they are I'll drudge up some articles.
Public opinion in Arab countries has about 57 percent of the population saying that a nuclear armed Iran would improve their region:
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/08_arab_opinion_poll_telhami/08_arab_opinion_poll_telhami.pdfThe same poll lists the public as identifying, by a margin of 88 percent, Israel as an enemy. 9 Percent of Arabs think Iran is an enemy.
The top three leaders admired outside of each Arab country? Recep Erdogan, Hugo Chavez, and Hassan Nasrallah.
Of course, you don't need the statistics to see the obvious, which is that Egypt and Tunisia are gone, Jordan is particularly uneasy, and the Gulf states are in over-drive trying to cut off protests at the knees.
The states most likely to survive the wave of protests are Syria and Iran. I don't think any serious analyst of the situation would deny that, even though they will both face some protest (and both should.) The reason is that they have much stronger popular support, and can field supporters of their regimes in response....the Arab states besides Syria have zero support, because they rely on gun-barrel governance at the hands of folks like the UAE royal who tortures people on video for fun (and gets acquitted of it in his own courts.)
Further evidence of the brutality, btw, is in the protest deaths...
Iran protest killings from today's protests: 1
Egyptian killings from its protests: 300.
Dogmush,
Iranian elections aren't exactly free and open, but they aren't meaningless either - the population actually gets to choose from a range of opinions. It's a whole lot better than say, Saudi Arabia, where you get no choice whatsoever.
Kuwait commands so much loyalty from its people that they ran, arms loaded with watches and money, as fast as they could from Saddam rather than stand and fight for the royals. Kuwait's government would last about five days if the protest-lid cracks there.
Try to analyze it this way - if you were a random Arab guy and your personal freedoms were your main concern, which Arab state, or Iran, would you choose to live in?