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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  bitterlemons-international.org - Middle East Roundtable
The landslide victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad in the second round of Iran's presidential elections came as a blow to the reform movement and to the Iranian civil society that elected Mohammad Khatemi to the presidency eight years ago.
Ahmadinezhad is a new face on the political scene to most Iranians and foreign analysts.
Ahmadinezhad's Iran holds many doubts and uncertainties concerning the degree of centralization of power and the role of religious ideology in foreign policy.
www.bitterlemons-international.org /inside.php?id=370   (712 words)

  
 Virtual Magic: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sometimes also transcribed into English as Mahmud, Mahmood, Ahmadinezhad, Ahmadi-Nejad, Ahmadi Nejad, Ahmady Nejad (born October 28, 1956) is the sixth president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Ahmadinezhad responded to the economists by attacking them, saying they were lying.
In early July 2006, the accountability office of the Tehran municipality accused the Ahmadinezhad’s older brother of corruption for the handling of a contract while Ahmadinejad was the mayor of Tehran.
virtualmagic.blogspot.com /2006/08/mahmoud-ahmadinejad.html   (4041 words)

  
 TCS Daily - Soccer Imam
Contrast Ahmadinezhad's case to that of David Irving, who was jailed for public denial of the Holocaust in Austria earlier this year.
Ahmadinezhad has never made any statements about the Holocaust or Israel on German soil, and thus cannot face persecution like Irving.
Under Ahmadinezhad's rule, the pressure on journalism has only intensified, with much tighter control on blogging and the Internet.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=050406A   (529 words)

  
 Moshe Sharon: Clean Out the Stables and Prepare for War
Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad is not the only one who is giving public expression to this Islam; and he, despite the monstrosity of his turn of phrase, is not the most outspoken among them.
Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, President of Iran, recently gave a speech before a group of Iranian scholars on the subject of Islamic art.
Mahmoud Abbas, the person that the Israeli press likes so much to refer to by his revolutionary name, Abu-Mazen, wrote a doctorate for the Soviet Lumumba University, in which he sought to prove the close cooperation between the Zionist movement and the Nazi regime.
www.acpr.org.il /ENGLISH-NATIV/09-issue/sharon-9.htm   (7288 words)

  
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Most of Ahmadinezhad’s support came from rural regions and the poorer classes of Iranian society; these voters hoped that Ahmadinezhad’s election would reduce corruption and raise their standard of living.
In early July of this year, the accountability office of the Tehran municipality accused the Ahmadinezhad’s older brother of corruption for the handling of a contract while Ahmadinezhad was the mayor of Teheran.
Despite Ahmadinezhad’s attempt to attract clerical support by increasing their budget, a visible gap is opening between the president and the clerical establishment.
www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=2490   (1309 words)

  
 History News Network
It would be foolish to claim that Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, the two candidates in the second round, are interchangeable.
Ahmadinezhad seldom talks of the United States and even denies that there is a crisis in relations.
Ahmadinezhad, however, states publicly that there can be no democracy in Islam and that the “pure Islamic rule” he promises to establish would bear no relationship to the globally adopted Western pluralist model.
hnn.us /blogs/entries/12671.html   (367 words)

  
 What Should We Make of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad’s “Letter to the Noble Americans”
On November 29, 2006 the dubiously-elected President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, had published in his name an epistle to the people of the United States.
Herewith is an analysis of, and commentary upon, this letter1 (with relevant quotations of Ahmadinezhad’s reproduced):
Another of Ahmadinezhad’s favorite themes is condemning Israel and shedding crocodile tears for the Palestinians.
www.hnn.us /articles/32503.html   (856 words)

  
 Lebanonwire.com | Reconstructing Lebanon: Short and Longer Term Challenges/title>
The record from Ahmadinezhad’s first year in office suggests that at least on domestic policy, his actions have systematically reinforced Khamenei’s authority.
By means of Ahmadinezhad’s 2005 election as well as the conservative victory in 2004 parliamentary elections, Khamenei has marginalized opposition in the elected political bodies.
Ahmadinezhad’s victory in last year’s presidential election has had the effect of increasing Khamenei’s power.
www.lebanonwire.com /0609MLN/06091311WI.asp   (1101 words)

  
 Prague Discussion Forums - What's the story?
Ahmadinezhad, on the other hand, has purged the notoriously corrupt gang leaders from the Tehran Municipality, which he heads as mayor, and promises to clean the stables throughout the government.
Ahmadinezhad, 22 years younger than Rafsanjani, is a child of the revolution, having spent his formative years under the Khomeinist regime.
Ahmadinezhad represents the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Baseej Mustadhafeen (Mobilization of the Dispossessed), largely recruited from among the poorest peasants.
prague.tv /forum/whats-the-story:4106   (4093 words)

  
 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has recently insisted that he is not an anti-Semite, saying "Some people think if they accuse me of being anti-Jew they can solve the problem.
Retrieved on 2006-10-29. “Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday that his letter to President George W. Bush did not concern the nuclear dossier, but rather was an invitation to Islam and the prophets culture.
Retrieved on 2006-10-18. “When Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks out candidly — as is his habit — he scares a lot of people.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinezhad   (4959 words)

  
 World Jewish Digest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
When Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad said Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth, he was just lending official weight to what the revolutionary leaders have long said in their speeches.
So what, they said, if that included the Supreme Leader of the country, and therefore the commander-in-chief of the military and the one responsible for declaring war— it was still his personal view.
Ahmadinezhad’s government is determined to tear down that fictitious separation and make the revolutionary rhetoric into official policy.
www.jewishbroadcasting.tv /wjd/december05/clawson.html   (1732 words)

  
 IranPressNews (English): IRANIANS HAVE HOBSON'S CHOICE
But the fact remains that this election was a spectacular show of force by the more hard-line Khomeinists whose most successful standard-bearer, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, will be present in the run-off against Rafsanjani.
Ahmadinezhad, a relative unknown to most Iranians, won almost as many votes as Rafsanjani.
Ahmadinezhad, on the other hand, belongs to the hard-line radicals who believe that they have discovered the recipe for the ideal society and that the rest of the world, which is corrupt and god-forsaken, must, at some point, either submit to them or be forced into submission.
www.iranpressnews.com /english/source/005728.html   (1399 words)

  
 Events
Complicating the situation is that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad seems to welcome the prospect of an attack on Iran as a means to rekindle the lost fervor of the early revolutionary days.
Having pegged his reputation on his ability to help the ordinary man, Ahmadinezhad faces serious problems: the economy is a mess, his policies are disastrous, and Iranians’ expectations are sky-high.
Ahmadinezhad’s policy is based on producing everything at home and creating barriers to trade -- he has no use for globalization.
www.thewashingtoninstitute.org /templateC07.php?CID=292   (3405 words)

  
 Iran: Amnesty International urges new President to make human rights a top priority - Amnesty International
Iran’s new President, Dr Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, should make human rights a top priority after he takes up office, Amnesty International said today, warning that recent weeks have seen renewed violations of human rights in the country.
The human rights organisation said it was worried by a number of recent developments, including the public execution of people who were children at the time of their alleged crimes.
The organisation said it had been encouraged by Ahmadinezhad's pre-election pledges to apply justice and to combat poverty, corruption and discrimination.
web.amnesty.org /library/index/engmde130412005   (623 words)

  
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Rising oil prices have increased the pressure on Ahmadinezhad to deliver, and the public perception is growing that rising state oil revenues have not improved the lives of average citizens.
The economic problems of the Ahmadinezhad government are due overwhelmingly to the poor policies his government is following and to the appointment of incompetent people to important economic posts.
Controversy over Ahmadinezhad’s diplomacy and his internal policies is so widespread that even his supporters have begun criticizing his simpleminded and rash decisions.
www.washingtoninstitute.org /templateC05.php?CID=2471   (1875 words)

  
 Will the US bomb Iran's nuclear sites?
As for instruments of dissuasion, they may not have much effect on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who seems to welcome even an attack on Iran as a means to rekindle the lost fervor of the early revolutionary days.
With the rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the first non-cleric to win Iran‚s presidency and himself a former engineering officer in their ranks, the Pasdaran have become an important political faction as well as a military force, a political gendarmerie, and a business conglomerate.
It is one more symptom of the regime‚s degeneration that, although the Pasdaran are well paid by local standards, they complement their salaries by engaging in both legal and illegal business, from manufacturing to contraband across the Persian Gulf.
www.aijac.org.au /updates/May-06/020506.html   (7145 words)

  
 No relations with US: Ahmadinezhad (WilayahNews.com)
Sanandaj, June 1 - "We shouldn't think the whole world is only one country," said Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, one of the eight candidates in the upcoming presidential election, regarding Iran-US relations on Wednesday.
Some simple-minded people believe that all problems will be solved by establishing relations with the US, while this country never has never cut off its relations with Iraq despite invading it," he added.
Disclaimer: Wilayah Network News aims at providing unbiased filtered news related to Muslim World using the best possible resources at our disposal, we verify the authenticity of the news to the extent possible, but do not take complete liability.
www.wilayahnetwork.com /news/?id=2938   (185 words)

  
 IRVAJ English -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beyond the shallow and tumultuous mediocrity of its politics, there remains one constant which has seriously damaged both politics and Islam, the former corroded to the point where all meanings have become meaningless, the latter eroded to the point of non-belief if not nihilism.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's assumption of Iran's presidency today, 3 August 2005, represents a political defeat with huge costs.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative son of a flsmith, became Iran's president yesterday in the midst of the biggest confrontation with the West since the seizure of the U.S. Embassy a quarter of a century ago, this time over Tehran's long-term nuclear ambitions.
www.iranvajahan.net /english/2005/08/04/index.shtml   (822 words)

  
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The forces of freedom in Iran would be grateful for true American friendship in their time of need and would not view it as meddling.
It is only members of the outlaw regime, such as Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, who would like the world to believe that they have the support of the Iranian people.
But the truth is that the Shia Islamists, who hijacked the future of Iran more than a quarter century ago, have never represented the interests of Iranians, for their main purpose has been and always will be to export their Islamic revolution to the rest of the Muslim world and beyond.
www.faithfreedom.org /oped/PeterKohanloo60301.htm   (680 words)

  
 Blog for roozbeh
Democracy: The insider information about the election results are out, and the populist hardline militarist-Islamist candidate, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad has won the election with a margin wide enough to make sure that any claim about rigging the election would be ineffective.
The Iranian people have proved their idiocy, the bad cycle of a hardline Parliament-Government-Judiciary is now completed, and we have a religio-fascistic government now, for the first time since the Iranian Revolution.
Democracy: The election results are out and the moderate pragmatist conservative Rafsanjani and the populist hardline conservative candidate Ahmadinezhad went to the second round.
www.advogato.org /person/roozbeh/diary.html?start=57   (866 words)

  
 .:DANEgerus Weblog:. Colonic Conservatism for those whose ignorance tilts Left Comments Page
He was having a khalvat (tete-a-tete) with the Hidden Imam, the 12th and last of the imams of Shiism who went into "grand occultation" in 941.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims Iran is "conducting research" on an advanced centrifuge obtained from rogue Pakistan scientist A.Q. Khan, and which it has previously denied using.
For all the deafening claims of Iran’s thug-par-excellence president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the clerical regime’s success in enriching uranium last week was primarily the result of nuclear science and technology imported from abroad, primarily from the infamous nuclear proliferator, A.Q. Khan of Pakistan.
www.danegerus.com /weblog/Comments.asp?svComment=14319   (2984 words)

  
 Election 2005: Iran - Confundo
If no candidate receives an absolute majority of the vote, all but the top two are eliminated and there's a second round of voting.
Something similar's happening this time in Iran - a moderate conservative (Akbar Hashemi Bahramani)and a hardliner (Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad) got first and second place in the first round, while the leading reformist, Mehdi Karroubi, is eliminated.
The Tehran mayor -- a hard-line conservative who has said Iran should embrace the principles of the 1979 Islamic Revolution -- was declared the winner of Iran's presidential election early Saturday, garnering almost 62 percent of the votes, the Interior Ministry said.
www.secondpagemedia.com /confundo/index.php?showtopic=4103   (688 words)

  
 America’s Iraqi follies, Iran’s opportunities :: rojname.com
Ahmadinezhad’s election ends a period during which the Iranian religious leadership was forced to retreat in the face of the American storm let loose by September 11, opening a space for a reform movement undertaken by the Khatemi presidency.
This had helped not only to absorb America’s rage, but also to build bridges of cooperation without allowing for genuine change inside Iran.
But with the election of Ahmadinezhad, a true revolutionary, the presidency regains it militancy in both form and spirit.
www.rojname.com /show-all-last-minute-news.php?nuce=70111   (977 words)

  
 AEI - Short Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad alluded to other Iraqi nuclear programs in a recent speech.
It is the single most active government in the world in funding, supporting and organizing terrorist activity.
Repeatedly, Ahmadinezhad has called for the destruction of Israel.
www.aei.org /publications/filter.all,pubID.24300/pub_detail.asp   (820 words)

  
 Iran / USA / Letters / God / Guantanamo / the price of Oil - Indymedia Ireland
Actually it might be the first time anything as simple as a letter caused that...
Mahmoud (Ahmadinejad / Ahmadinezhad) is the "democratically" elected president of the Islamic republic of Iran, a state which is comitted to the destruction of Israel, the development of Nuclear power, and generally getting up the Yankee nose.
George Bush is a man who doesn't read newspapers, uses his illiteracy and mal-adroit speech as a propaganda tool, and consistently involves Jesus (PBUH) in all his decision making.
ireland.indymedia.org /article/75985   (1273 words)

  
 Iraq's Iranian Connection | The New America Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafaari of the Da'wa Shi'ite group visited Iran recently, where he was warmly greeted by, among others, new President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad.
No details were given, but it might have taken place when Ahmadinezhad was a commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the late 1980s and Talabani lived in Tehran as a member of the exiled opposition.
Ayatollah Sistani retains close ties to Iranian officials, though he avowedly says he is not interested in an Islamic Republic.
www.newamerica.net /publications/articles/2005/iraqs_iranian_connection   (837 words)

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