Reaction in Iran has been mostly congratulatory with reformist newspaper E'temad pointing out that the elections were held despite threats of violence from the Taliban - a positive sign in the paper's view.
As Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and David Thomas explained in their 2010 working paper A Positive Approach to Studying Diversity in Organizations, the notion that minority board members bring unique information to the table that leads to improved performance, though beneficial, does not account for better results.