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Perhaps. This is by an Iranian:

The ballot box beats the coffin, by Amir Taheri

AS IRAQIS voted in their first truly free election, they may have noticed a slogan on some walls in Baghdad and parts of the Sunni Triangle: Min al-sanduq il-al-sanduq. Its literal translation is “from the box into the box”. But the message is starker: “From the ballot box to the coffin.”

Worthy reading. You cannot, after all, take all your middle east politics from American commentators, nor from these idiots.