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Thread ID: 18833 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2005-06-25
2005-06-25 23:34 | User Profile
Conservative elected President in Iran
Hard-Liner Declared Iran's New President [url]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_election[/url]
2005-06-25 23:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Conservative elected President in Iran
Hard-Liner Declared Iran's New President [url="http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_election"]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050625/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_election[/url][/QUOTE][QUOTE] It was an ironic twist that Iran's first non-cleric to reach the country's highest elected office since the 1979 Islamic Revolution was more religiously unyielding than the cleric he defeated, former president Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
"My mission is creating a role model of a modern, advanced, powerful and Islamic society," he said in the message broadcast shortly after the announcement of final results sealed his stunning defeat of the self-proclaimed moderate Rafsanjani.
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Can we, America, find a way to work with this guy? For crying out loud, we have been at loggerheads with Iran for too long. We need to find a way to "make a deal deal" to quote Crapgame from Kelly's Heroes.
2005-06-26 13:15 | User Profile
While his election is in part a repudiation of Bush's neo-con imperialist foreign policy in the Middle East, I think its just as much, if not more, about the fact that most Iranians didn't want another term for ex-President Rafsanjani, anymore than most Americans want another term for James Earl Carter, George Herbert Walker Bush, or Gerald R. Ford. The Iranian Old Guard is about as beloved as the Johnson admistration is around these parts. The new President has ideological beliefs similar/identical to the right-wing of the old guard, but he's not an actual part of it per se, which mattered more than ideology to the Iranian electorate. I susect that had a Khatami-style reformer made the run-off with Rafsanjani, he'd have won too, albeit by a smaller margin (since some of the anti-Axis of Evil vote, so to speak, would have reverted to Rafsanjani over a reformist).
2005-07-01 03:04 | User Profile
I heard on the radio today that one of the ex-hostages recognized the new Iranian president as one of the captors. Our gubment is looking into it.
[size=2][color=#000000]Bedford, June 30 (AP) - A Bedford man who was one of the Americans held hostage in Iran in 1979 says he's certain one of their captors was Iranian president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Several other former hostages agree with Don Sharer of Bedford, who says Ahmadinejad was "extremely cruel" and "one of the hard-liners."
He says that after seeing recent newspaper photos, he has no doubt that Ahmadinejad was a hostage-taker.
But at least one other hostage says he doesn't remember him.
Fifty-two Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were captured by Iranian students and held for 444 days.
A close aide to Ahmadinejad denies he was involved.
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2005-07-01 03:48 | User Profile
BlueBonnet
[QUOTE]I heard on the radio today that one of the ex-hostages recognized the new Iranian president as one of the captors. Our gubment is looking into it.[/QUOTE]
My first impression is the story is a hoax, but will have to wait and see. The Neocon's mindless dupes will likely still believe the story even if it is latter proven false.
Pictures: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Claimed-to-be-ahmadinejad.jpg[/url]