Voters Back Iran's Hard Man President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Defy West Opposition to Nuclear Program
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Bloomberg.com has this article out today and it starts like this... Defenders of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear policy won parliamentary elections in Iran, strengthening his hand as he pursues a program of uranium enrichment in defiance of the United Nations... Iran's most devout Islamists, who backed Ahmadinejad as he ignored the West's opposition to his nuclear ambitions, swept the nationwide ballot on March 14 with about 70 percent support, according to preliminary results...
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Ahmadinejad's Nuclear Mandate Strengthened After Iran Election
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* The BBC News website has this take on the story...
By Sunday evening, conservatives had won four times as many seats as the reformists, retaining control of the Iranian parliament... No doubt they will take it as an endorsement of their uncompromising view of Iran's Islamic system, of the nuclear programme, and of Iran's assertive foreign policy...No doubt they will conveniently forget that a large proportion of the reformist candidates were disqualified...
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Iran faces power play after vote
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* smh.com.au website reports...
The Iranian President's populism and attacks on the West trumped criticism of his handling of the nation's financial crisis as early results showed the hardline leader had won strong support in parliamentary elections... Reformist parties opposed to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood little chance in Friday's voting. Hundreds of their members, including high-profile candidates, had been removed from the ballot by the Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists that scrutinizes candidates for loyalty to the country's Islamic system...
Read this report below...
Voters back Iran's hard man
Sunday, March 16, 2008
.
Bloomberg.com has this article out today and it starts like this... Defenders of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear policy won parliamentary elections in Iran, strengthening his hand as he pursues a program of uranium enrichment in defiance of the United Nations... Iran's most devout Islamists, who backed Ahmadinejad as he ignored the West's opposition to his nuclear ambitions, swept the nationwide ballot on March 14 with about 70 percent support, according to preliminary results...Read this story in full at link below...
Ahmadinejad's Nuclear Mandate Strengthened After Iran Election
.
* The BBC News website has this take on the story...
By Sunday evening, conservatives had won four times as many seats as the reformists, retaining control of the Iranian parliament... No doubt they will take it as an endorsement of their uncompromising view of Iran's Islamic system, of the nuclear programme, and of Iran's assertive foreign policy...No doubt they will conveniently forget that a large proportion of the reformist candidates were disqualified...
Read the rest at link below...
Iran faces power play after vote
.
* smh.com.au website reports...
The Iranian President's populism and attacks on the West trumped criticism of his handling of the nation's financial crisis as early results showed the hardline leader had won strong support in parliamentary elections... Reformist parties opposed to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood little chance in Friday's voting. Hundreds of their members, including high-profile candidates, had been removed from the ballot by the Guardian Council, a body of clerics and jurists that scrutinizes candidates for loyalty to the country's Islamic system...
Read this report below...
Voters back Iran's hard man
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