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Topic: Mostafa Moin

	Middle East Report Online, Iran's Presidential Runoff: The Long View by Kaveh Ehsani, June 24, 2005
		Moin's candidacy marked the first time that the lay reformers who compose his party had put forward a non-cleric as their candidate.
		In the penultimate stages of the campaign, as Moin's popularity failed to increase, his backers broke a political taboo and extended their hand to Iranian opposition forces that have stayed inside the country, but have always stayed outside the regime.
		Moin's campaign pledged to continue political liberalization and economic reforms, to struggle to free political prisoners and protect the press and civil society groups, and to defuse tensions with the United States over Iran's nuclear program.
	www.merip.org /mero/mero062405.html (2734 words)

	Reformist candidate Moin abandon doubts to run as president - Irna
		Former minister Mostafa Moin announced Saturday that he had overcome his 'heavy doubts' to run at the June 17 presidential election, pledging to take up the reform mantle and challenge the 'unconstitutional' powers of the Guardian Council.
		Moin has already put himself on a collision course with the supervisory Guardian Council, which disqualified him from standing as president before lifting the ban only after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's advised it to reinstate him.
		Moin pledged to 'take measures against the wholesale suspension of the press, the continued detention of political activists, the detention of webloggers and other press activists' if elected.
	www.irna.com /en/news/view/line-17/0505281388223807.htm (1185 words)

	Iran Focus-Iran elections candidates: Mostafa Moin - Iran (General) - News
		Moin served as chancellor of Shiraz University from 1981 to 1982 and has been a member of the Supreme Cultural Revolution Council since 1983.
		Moin was a Majlis (parliament) deputy from 1982 to 1984, and again from 1988 to 1989.
		Moin served as the Culture and Higher Education Minister from 1989 to 1993 and served as Higher Education Minister from 1997 to 2003.
	www.iranfocus.com /modules/news/article.php?storyid=2388 (280 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		Moin and Mehralizadeh had been the prime reformers in the presidential race, and because of their views, which call for liberalizing Iranian politics, they were disqualified by the GC.
		Mostafa Moin is the man making headlines today as the reformer who, if elected, would continue the promising yet undelivered reforms of Khatami.
		Moin served as minister of culture and higher education under both presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami, resigning twice - in 1999 at the suppression of student demonstrators (in which his rivals in today's elections played a crucial role), and in 2003, when the GC refused to permit his ministry to pursue more "scientific productivity".
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GE28Ak02.html (2725 words)

	NPR : Q&A: Iran Presidential Election Preview
		Moin was a minister of higher education and science in the government of President Mohammed Khatami.
		Moin was at first disqualified as a candidate by the Guardian Council, but then reinstated under pressed from Ayatollah Khamenei.
		Moin's running mate for vice president is Mohammed Reza Khatami, the current president's brother.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4705530 (1756 words)

	Reformists blocked from Iran vote
		On Monday, reformists condemned what they said was the illegal disqualification of Mostafa Moin, a former minister of culture and the sole candidate of the Participation Front.
		With Moin and other reformists eliminated, the choice of candidates is limited to a powerful former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - seen as a more pragmatic conservative - four hard-liners and one centrist cleric.
		Moin was the only major candidate who supported continued suspension of all uranium enrichment-related activities by Iran to avoid a nuclear crisis and to reach a political compromise with Europe.
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/05/23/news/iran.php (723 words)

	The Hindu : International : Iran's reformist threatens to quit poll
		FRONTRUNNER: Mostafa Moin (second left), leading reformist candidate in Iran's presidential elections, and his wife Zahra Dastgheyb Lari on their way to a rally in the Khurasan Province on the last day of his campaign on Wednesday.
		In an interview with this correspondent, Mostafa Moin also implied a possible link between the assaults and a spate of bombings that has killed 10 persons in the run-up to Friday's poll.
		Moin, the Islamic Iran Participation Front candidate, did not say who he thought was behind the blasts.
	www.hindu.com /2005/06/16/stories/2005061603631500.htm (760 words)

	Iran's reform activists banking on candidate Mostafa Moin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Moin, like Khatami, represents a kinder, gentler Islamic Republic, one in which the Shiite Muslim faith would dominate because people choose to follow its tenets, not because they are made to.
		Moin has made no mention of the United States by name, but Moin's vice-presidential running mate, Khatami's brother, Mohammad Reza Khatami, told reporters last week that a Moin presidency would change Iran's approach toward other nations from an ideological one to one based on how Iran's economy might be helped.
		Moin said he has no plans to eliminate the ruling clerics, whose role is enshrined in the country's constitution.
	www.newsdesk.org /archives/000203.php (1867 words)

	Middle East Online
		Iran's main reformist party met Thursday to decide whether Mostafa Moin, its candidate who was given last-minute approval to stand in presidential elections next month, should go ahead and contest the polls.
		The fears are that even if Moin manages to pull off a shock win on June 17, he would simply be a lame-duck president and unable to honour his campaign pledges due to opposition from more powerful hardliners.
		The former higher education minister has been seen as the most credible reform candidate, and his disqualification was greeted with accusations of a "coup d'etat" by hardliners and calls for a damaging boycott.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=13614 (682 words)

	Mostafa Moin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		'''Mostafa Moin''', M.D. (مصطفی معین;; born March 31, 1951 in Najaf Abad), is an Iranian politician, currently an Advisor to the President of Iran.
		Moin was the Minister of Culture and Higher Education under President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (1989-1993) and President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2000), and later became the Minister of Science, Research, and Technology (the same post, with a changed name) under President Khatami (2000-2003).
		As a Minister, Moin resigned two times, first after the student protests of July, 1999, and then in July, 2003 after he wasn't able to get the Council of Guardians pass laws for changing the direction of his ministry towards more "scientific productivity".
	mostafa-moin.kiwiki.homeip.net (425 words)

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		Reformist candidate former Culture Minister Mostafa Moin, waves to his supporters as he leaves his office after...
		Former Culture Minister Mostafa Moin, who was the sole candidate of Iran's largest reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front, was among those disqualified.
		Moin was the only hopeful who supported continued suspension of all uranium enrichment-related activities by Iran to avoid a nuclear crisis and reach a political compromise with the Europeans.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/html/2005/05/23/138761.html (601 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: MOIN SWEEPER:
		Moin hopes to become the first non-clerical president of Iran since the early days of the revolution.
		One of Moin's campaign supporters, Mohsen Safaee Farahani, former head of the Iranian soccer federation, read off numbers from a small slip of paper in his hand of returns he said he had obtained from a remote town in the Central Province where votes had already been counted.
		In one, he said, Moin had obtained 10,003 votes out of 15,030 votes cast; in another 218 of 340; in a third, 104 of 140.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2005/06/moin_sweeper_1.html (977 words)

	Mostafa Moeen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mostafa Moeen, M.D. (مصطفی معین; born April 1, 1951), also spelled Moin, is an Iranian politician and professor of Pediatrics, and an Advisor to the former President Mohammad Khatami.
		Mostafa Moin is one of the leading Iranian researchers in the field of Pediatric immunology and allergy.
		He is currently president of a research center affiliated to Tehran medical school.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mostafa_Moin (441 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Iran to reconsider reformist ban
		State TV said Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had written to the council instructing it to reconsider the applications of Mostafa Moin and Mohsen Mehr Alizadeh.
		Earlier on Monday, Mr Moin, a former education minister and the favoured candidate of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), described his disqualification as "unfair, unreasonable and illegal".
		Mostafa Tajzadeh, a senior IIPF member, told AFP: "I think the elections should be boycotted.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/4572527.stm (377 words)

	Gains for Democracy Could Jolt Iran's Theocrats and America's Neocons
		For their own reasons, the rulers in both countries refuse to acknowledge the vital significance of support for presidential candidate Mostafa Moin, now the most prominent voice for democracy and human rights in Iranian politics.
		In fact, the average age in the stadium was probably somewhere in the mid-20s.
		Moin, an educator and medical doctor, has taken the baton from a supportive Khatami.
	www.fair.org /index.php?page=2554 (836 words)

	AIC Update
		Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani appears to have reinvented himself in the eyes of the West as a savior for moderation, and Mostafa Moin has emerged as the successor to the Khatami-styled reform movement.
		Former Higher Education Minister Mostafa Moin hopes his reformist platform can attract the student vote, which was crucial to the election of his fellow reformist Mohammad Khatami.
		But even if he wins, Moin is likely to face the opposition of powerful hardliners due to his stance on nuclear issues, the release of political prisoners, and the powers of the Supreme Leader.
	www.american-iranian.org /pubs/aicupdate/06162005.html (838 words)

	Notes on Mostafa Moin MD.
		Moin will not admit that his candidacy was a farce although he would love to get off the ballot right now.
		Mostafa Moin MD. has been dropped from the ballot for the Presidency because of his opposition to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
		Moin is the first choice of the Iran Participation Front (IIPF) as their candidate for President in the 2995 election.
	www.persiancarpetguide.com /sw-asia/People/Bio896.htm (1734 words)

	Iran's Science Minister Mostafa Moin submits his resignation
		Iran's Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mostafa Moin has submitted his resignation, a ministry's official said, IRNA reported from Tehran.
		Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mostafa Moin handed over his resignation to President Mohammad Khatami on Thursday but the president gave no response to the resignation request, she said.
		It is believed that Moin's resignation was mainly due to the Guardian Council's rejection of a bill that he put forward to restructure his ministry.
	www.payvand.com /news/03/jul/1187.html (179 words)

	iranian.com: Mostafa Moin, Iran elections, Qumars Bolourchian
		The Guardian Council made a dangerous move by disqualifying reformist candidate Dr. Mostafa Moin from participating in the presidential election.
		The popular accusation that the Reform movement in general and Mostafa Moin in particular would be ineffective and powerless should be put to rest now.
		If Moin was no threat to the Khamenei backed hard-liners and Rafsanjani, he would not have been initially disqualified.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2005/May/Elect (1852 words)

	Iran : candidats à la présidentielle - ReSo - Réformistes et Solidaires
		Mostafa Tajzadeh, a senior IIPF member, told AFP : "I think the elections should be boycotted.
		Mostafa Moin and Mohsen Mehr Alizadeh had been barred from standing in the 17 June election along with all but six of more than 1,000 candidates.
		On Monday, Mr Moin, a former education minister and the favoured candidate of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), described his disqualification as "unfair, unreasonable and illegal".
	www.re-so.net /article.php3?id_article=1118 (857 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Moin is the candidate of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF).
		The council, the constitutional watchdog that vets election candidates, agreed to allow former education minister Mostafa Moin and Vice President for Sports Mohsen Mehr-Alizadeh to stand in the June 17 elections, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
		Moin is the candidate chosen by the main reformist party, the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), and seen as the only credible pro-reform figure running for the post.
	www.islamonline.net /English/News/2005-05/24/article10.shtml (383 words)

	Campaign ends in Iran's presidential race - World Affairs Board
		Moin, originally barred from running in the June 17 presidential elections, is the closest rival to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, front-runner in Iran's presidential race, which analysts say are the closest in the Islamic state's history.
		Supporters of Moin have complained of beatings by hard-liners during more than two weeks of campaigning, prompting the president to call for action against those responsible.
		His nearest rivals are Moin, 54, and conservative ex-police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, 43, with Tehran's ex-mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerging as a dark-horse conservative contender.
	www.worldaffairsboard.com /showthread.php?t=6361 (4579 words)

	Iranian liberals divided on backing Rafsanjani -DAWN - International; June 19, 2005
		Dispirited young liberals, many of them close to tears, milled around the campaign headquarters of presidential hopeful Mostafa Moin, whose crushing defeat extinguished hopes of a reformist successor to Mohammad Khatami.
		Ahmadinejad is loyal to the strict values of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and draws his support from the poor and has dismissed a rapprochement with Washington.
		Moin and another reformist hopeful, cleric Mehdi Karroubi, both claimed the vote had been rigged.
	www.dawn.com /2005/06/19/int7.htm (378 words)

	IIPF names Mostafa Moin candidate for presidential polls - Irna
		Secretary General of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF) Mohammad Reza Khatami said on Saturday that the political party has introduced former minister of science, research and technology Mostafa Moin as its candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
		"After extensive debate and analytical study of the political situation and the demands of the reform camp, the IIPF is introducing Moin as the first and main candidate to run for the presidency," Mohammad Reza Khatami said.
		Asked whether the other political parties of the reform camp have introduced other candidates, Mohammad Reza Khatami said that establishment of different political parties is the major outcome of the reform movement and it is pleasing that there are diversity of views which took the shape of political parties.
	www.irna.com /en/news/view/line-17/0412250783175713.htm (467 words)

	Rafsanjani, Moin Lead Iran Presidential Poll-Aides
		Tehran - Moderate cleric Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and reformist Mostafa Moin are heading to a run-off vote in Iran's presidential election, both camps said on Friday.
		Aides to the two men told Reuters Rafsanjani and Moin were the top two vote-getters in a field of seven, but neither had gained the 50 percent support needed for outright victory.
		"My prediction is that Rafsanjani and Moin have got the most votes and I don't think there is a huge gap between them," Mohammad Ali Abtahi, adviser to outgoing reformist President Mohammad Khatami and a strong ally of Moin.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/11969 (269 words)

	Iran's Presidential Election on Friday -- Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
		Nader Davoodi, an Iranian photographer who lives in Tehran, describes himself as "a very close friend to" the campaign of Mostafa Moin, the reformist presidential candidate in Iran.
		The Tehran Times reported Wednesday [that] the outspoken Moin 'referred to the upcoming establishment of a Democracy and Human Rights Front in Iran to defend the rights of all Iran's religious and ethnic groups, the youth, academicians, women, and political opposition groups whose rights are often neglected.'...
		In a country where political imprisonment and torture continue, such public statements are emblematic of a courageous movement struggling to emerge from the shadows of the Islamic Republic.
	www.accuracy.org /newsrelease.php?articleId=1072 (455 words)

	Iran News - "Attacks increasing on pro-Moin meetings" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		LONDON, June 12 (IranMania) - A prominent aide of Mostafa Moin said since the popularity of Moin is on the rise and his entry into the second round of presidential election will defeat a premeditated plan, there have been mounting attacks on campaign meetings held by his supporters.
		According to Iran Daily, Behzad Nabavi, a pro-reform activist, added, "Earlier, upon the orders of power-wielders, campaign speeches held by Moin's supporters nationwide were confronted in a civil manner.
		A speech delivered by Nabavi in favor of Moin in Qom on Thursday was disrupted when his supporters and opponents clashed.
	www.iranmania.com /News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=32442&NewsKin... (565 words)

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