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| | President of Iran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Mohammad Khatami - elected president in August of 1997 (1997 election), re-elected in 2001 (2001 election). | | | Fulfilled the role of both Supreme Leader and President between the death of Khomeini and the election of Rafsanjani. | | | Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - elected president in August of 1989 (1989 election), re-elected in 1993 (1993 election), served until August 1997. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_Iran
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| | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ahmadinejad became the President of Iran on August 3, 2005, receiving the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. | | | Ahmadinejad was appointed mayor of Tehran on May 3, 2003 and was elected president on June 24, 2005. | | | Ahmadinejad resigned from his post as the mayor of Tehran after his election to the presidency. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad
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| | People's Daily Online -- Iran's new president: Scrap all WMDs |
| | Iran's new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office Wednesday with an appeal for an end to weapons of mass destruction and pledging to fight for justice and prosperity for Iranians. | | | According to the constitution of the Islamic republic, Wednesday's ceremony marked the beginning of the new president's assumption of power, but he will also be sworn in at another inauguration held on Saturday in the Majlis - Iran's parliament. | | | "Iran wants to see the establishment of lasting peace and justice," he said. |
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http://english.people.com.cn/200508/04/eng20050804_200255.html
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| | Iran News - President promoting Iran's foreign policy |
| | LONDON, September 13 (IranMania) - Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the Iranian nation?s identity, dignity and prestige emanate from the Islamic Revolution, calling on diplomats to advance Iran?s foreign policy, Iran Daily reported. | | | In a meeting with Iranian diplomats, Ahmadinejad urged all revolutionary forces to use effective means to materialize the ideals of the Iranian nation through active and effective participation in the international arena. |
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http://iranmania.com/News/ArticleView?NewsCode=35506&NewsKind=Current+Affairs
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| | Iran Gets New President Amid Tension With the West |
| | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, Iran's new president, is greeted by supporters at his inauguration. | | | Ahmadinejad was formally acknowledged yesterday as the new president by Iran's supreme leader, the first step in assuming power. | | | Over the past eight years, during the two-term presidency of reformer Mohammad Khatami, the Iranian regime has been deeply divided by rival reformers and hard-liners. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080302088.html
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| | The EU's relations with Iran - Overview |
| | Khatami as President in May 1997, a renewed Comprehensive Dialogue in the form of semi-annual troika meetings was established (1998). | | | This effort came to a halt with the outcome of the Iranian general elections in early 2004 which were held under conditions criticised by the EU. | | | Following President Khatami's re-election in June 2001, expectations were high but the reform pace remained modest. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/iran/intro
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| | Iran Under Khatami: Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict |
| | President Khatamits election and his opening to the American people, however, have radically altered the rules of the game and greatly complicated Washington's calculations in a way that will require the United States to rnodtfr its approach toward Iran. | | | The potential offered by this leverage was most clearly manifested in President Khatami's CNN address to the American people, which more than anything else was a nod to popular opinion in Iran, which strongly favors more normal relations with the United States. | | | Shortly after President Khatami~s inauguration last August, he appointed Oil Minister Gholamreza Aghazadeh to head the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI). |
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| | Pravda.RU Uzbek President visits Iran |
| | This decision was taken by the President of the republic, Saparmurat Niyazov, on Monday at a Cabinet session. | | | Washington intends to resolve its problems with Iran by diplomatic means according to US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ross Wilson. | | | The US administration really seeks to settle the problem of Abkhazia (republic that disintegrated from Georgia de facto in the early 1990s after a slaughterous conflict with Tbilisi) and is looking into a possibility of getting involved in the settlement process, President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia said at a news briefing on Monday. |
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| | Maryam Rajavi - Home |
| | It called on law enforcement agencies to arrest Fallahian — who for years headed Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and is currently a security advisor to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei — and transfer him to the Canton Vaud Prison in Lausanne. | | | Swissinfo - A Swiss judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Iran's secret police for his role in the killing of a leading Iranian dissident 16 years ago. | | | Le Matin Dimanche reproduced part of the document in which Jacques Antenen, an investigative magistrate in the Swiss canton (state) of Vaud, requested Swiss federal authorities to demand the arrest of Ali Fallahian, Tehran's hard-line former intelligence minister. |
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| | Pravda.RU President Putin on Iran nuclear programme |
| | The Russian president introduced me to the emir of Qatar, who had chaired the previous OIC conference and had acted as the OIC chairman for three years. | | | No extra security measures will be taken in Chechnya on October 19, the day of the inauguration of the republic's President Akhmad Kadyrov, Anatoly Popov, Chairman of the committee responsible for organizing the inauguration, told a press conference on Wednesday. | | | New Saint Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko thanked the citizens of the city, politicians and especially Russian President Vladimir Putin for the 'political and moral support.' 'It's our victory,' she said. |
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http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2003/10/17/50564.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Special reports Terrorist claim hits Iran's new president |
| | Simon Jenkins: Iran is the first test of Blair's interventionism and the auguries are not good | | | It is difficult enough to work with Iran and this will make it even more difficult," said Senator Carl Levin, the senior Democrat on the armed services committee. | | | Col Scott, now retired and living in Jonesboro, Georgia, reiterated his claims to the Associated Press. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1518876,00.html
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| | The Indepundit |
| | Then again, knowing who their new President is (and what he has done) should certainly factor into our future diplomatic efforts. | | | We have also had former generals elected to the Presidency who did a lousy job. | | | When the mullahs rigged the election in Iran to install a former captor of Americans, it was a gift to the US. |
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http://www.indepundit.com/archive2/2005/06/irans_terrorist_1.html
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| | CNN.com - Former hostages allege Iran's new president was captor - Jun 30, 2005 |
| | Abdi later became a supporter of reformist President Mohammed Khatami and was recently released from jail for advocating closer ties with the United States. | | | The November 4, 1979, embassy takeover followed protests demanding that the United States return the Shah of Iran to Tehran for trial. | | | Former hostages allege Iran's new president was captor |
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/06/30/iran.president
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| | albawaba.com middle east news information::Historic visit of Iraqi president in Iran |
| | While in the Iranian capital, the Iraqi president is scheduled to discuss bilateral relations and key developments in the region with senior Iranian officials including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. | | | Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Tehran on Monday at the head of a high-ranking political and economic delegation for an official visit. | | | This is the first visit by Iraqi president in Iran since the end of the 1960s. |
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http://www.albawaba.com/en/news/191619
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| | CBS News Iran President: Holocaust Is a 'Myth' |
| | The president's views sharply conflict with those of his predecessor Mohammad Khatami, a moderate who used to call for dialogue among civilizations and promoted a low-key understanding with the United States that stopped short of diplomatic relations. | | | In Berlin, Foreign Minister Steinmeier said his government had summoned the Iranian charge d'affaires to make "unmistakably clear" its displeasure. | | | Moderate Iranians have called on the ruling Islamic establishment to rein in the president. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/14/ap/world/mainD8EG0GR81.shtml
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| | Iran News - Sri Lankan president in Iran |
| | The official news agency IRNA said she is scheduled to meet with President Mohammad Khatami, influential ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and Defense Minister Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani. | | | Iran News - Sri Lankan president in Iran |
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http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView?ArchiveNews=Yes&NewsCode=27318&NewsKind=CurrentAffairs
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| | Iran Focus-AP Photo shows Iran’s new President as 1979 US hostage-taker - Terrorism - News |
| | London, Jun. 29 - Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Iran’s newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979. | | | For a fuller account of Ahmadinejad’s life, go to the following story: Iran’s new President has a past mired in controversy | | | AP Photo shows Iran’s new President as 1979 US hostage-taker |
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| | Syrian president visits Iran |
| | This is Assad's fourth visit to Iran since he became president of Syria in 2000. | | | Assad, accompanied by his foreign minister Farouk Sharaa, is the first leader to visit Tehran since Ahmedinejad was elected president last month. | | | TEHRAN, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad arrived in the Iranian capital Sunday to congratulate his counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, on assuming his new position. |
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http://www.softcom.net/webnews/wed/dd/Uiran-syria.RKd-_Fa7.html
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| | Luboš Motl's reference frame: Israel and the president of Iran |
| | If the president of Iran switched from the words about Israel to acts and started to erase Israel from the map, I would find it absolutely obvious that every civilized Western country would have to declare war on Iran. | | | Some other Iranian politicians attempted to soften the president's remarks. | | | Nevertheless, the president of Iran has re-confirmed his statements today on a demonstration of thousands of empty heads. |
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http://motls.blogspot.com/2005/10/israel-and-president-of-iran.html
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| | 'Elect an anti-US president for Iran' |
| | IRAN'S supreme leader has lashed out at US meddling in the nation's coming elections, labelling Washington "the enemy" and calling on the Iranian people to elect an anti-Western president. | | | The comments come after the US criticised Iran this week for a decision by the hardline Guardian Council to disqualify two reformist candidates from the June 17 presidential election -- a decision overturned by Ayatollah Khamenei, who has virtually unlimited powers. | | | Maine's Governor John E. Baldacci is running for president of Iran? |
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| | IRAN: AHMADINEJAD BECOMES PRESIDENT |
| | Tehran, 3 August (AKI) - The ultra-conservative former mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been confirmed in office as the new president of Iran. | | | He was endorsed by the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a ceremony on Wednesday morning, but will take the oath of office in parliament on Saturday. | | | He has already submitted a list of names of his new government to parliament, most of whom are thought to be hardliners like himself. |
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.193190796&par=0
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| | BBC NEWS Middle East Iran doubts fair trial for Saddam |
| | Iran's hardline judiciary frequently passes the death penalty. | | | Mr Khatami has said he does not "like the death penalty". | | | Iran - which was invaded by Iraq in 1980 - is preparing charges against the ousted Iraqi president. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3327861.stm
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| | The Observer International Shock as Iran elects hardline president |
| | His senior advisers are believed to have held pre-election talks with British embassy officials in Tehran as part of plans for greater rapprochement with the West. | | | His campaign advisers insist Khatami's modest reforms will not be reversed and that private behaviour will not be regulated. | | | Ahmadinejad is supported by the basij, a volunteer grassroots militia that acts as a vigilante force ensuring religious laws are observed. |
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| | AZERBAIJAN'S PRESIDENT IN IRAN |
| | Aliev, on his first visit to Iran as president, returned Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's August 2004 visit to Baku. | | | The visit reflected -- and built upon -- the late president Haidar Aliev's success, by and large, in normalizing Azerbaijan-Iran relations toward the end of his rule. | | | Regarding the hypothetical use of Azerbaijan's territory for a putative U.S. attack on Iran, Aliev's chief foreign policy adviser Novruz Mamedov stated, "No U.S. invasion of Iran, as was the case with Iraq, is on the agenda at the moment. |
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| | Waiting for the rapture in Iran csmonitor.com |
| | The president also spoke of an aura that wreathed him throughout his controversial UN speech in September. | | | Tears stream down the cheeks of 2,000 men ripe for the return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam they expect will soon emerge to bring justice and peace to a corrupt world. | | | Ahmadinejad's executive self-confidence contrasts sharply with the eight-year presidency of Mohammad Khatami, a moderate cleric who advocated a "dialogue of civilizations" and Iran's return to the international fold. |
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1221/p01s04-wome.html
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| | The Washington Note Archives |
| | The new president looks to me to be extremely smart and practical. | | | Was "shock and awe" and all its collateral damage of innocents who have been wiped off this universe already, the action of a responsible pResident and Prime Minister? | | | Plus some have noted that the Iranian president's message was more to his own people and compared it with Bush's "Axis of Evil" speech. |
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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001035.html
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| | President of Iran, Seyed Mohamad Khatami in the Monument of Armenian Genocide |
| | The director of the Genocide Museum at Zizernagabert, Lavrenti Barseghian, briefed the Iranian president on the history of the museum, while employees | | | Armenia's chief of presidential staff Artashes Tumanian, Yerevan mayor Yervand Zakharian, Armenian deputy foreign minister Ruben Shugarian, and other high-ranking officials accompanied Khatami. | | | Talking to journalists, Lavrentiy Barseghyan said that the Iranian leader has become the forth Moslem leader to visit Tsitsernakaberd after the presidents of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Lebanon. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Iranian president says Holocaust was 'fabricated' |
| | Under Iran's constitution, the president can be overruled by a supreme religious leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | | | One of them, Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, whom Ahmadinejad defeated for the presidency, has openly criticized the new president and been given new powers by Khamenei to supervise the president. | | | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks in the southeastern city of Zahedan. |
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http://usatoday.com/news/world/2005-12-14-holocaust-myth_x.htm
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| | Iran: President Says Light Surrounded Him During UN Speech - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | In recent weeks, the president's aides have denied a rumor that he ordered his cabinet to write a pact of loyalty with the 12th Imam and throw it down a well near the holy city of Qom, where some believe the Imam is hiding. | | | The Iranian president added that he also sensed it. | | | Ahmadinejad's supporters said such rumors are being circulated about the president by opponents in efforts to defame him. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Iran's new president walks a hard line |
| | The election of Tehran's mayor as Iran's president consolidates power under supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and will bolster those in the United States who argue against engagement with Iran's theocratic regime, some Iran analysts say. | | | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, defeated former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a runoff election Friday. | | | Ahmadinejad defeated former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a runoff Friday. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-06-26-iran-new-president_x.htm
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| | Iran's new president accused in '89 killings - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | VIENNA, Austria -- An exiled Iranian dissident on Saturday said Iran's newly elected president -- already accused of taking American diplomats hostage 36 years ago -- played a key role in the 1989 execution-style slayings of a Kurdish opposition leader and two associates in Vienna. | | | He also said the new president was not involved in the hostage-taking. | | | Iran's new president accused in '89 killings - PittsburghLIVE.com |
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| | Turkmenistan's president felicitates Iran's president-elect - Irna |
| | The Turkmen President also wished success and prosperity for both the Iranian nation and its new president. | | | Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov felicitated Iran's president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message here Monday over his landslide victory in the June 24 runoff of the presidential election. | | | Niyazov hoped that Ahmadinejad's election as the sixth president of the Islamic Iran would open new chapters for Tehran-Ashkhabad cooperation. |
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| | Iran |
| | Iran law resource page with links to the Iran constitution, Iran government, Iran law firms, Iran law, Iran supreme leader, Iran president, Iran bar association, Iran legal research, Iran legislature, and Iran law guide. | | | From WebIran ®, a service of Dr. Alexander Aghayan & Associates, Attorneys at Law & Patent and Trademark Agents, Tehran, Iran. | | | The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
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| | Iran leader's Holocaust remarks blasted - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com |
| | His election in June sealed the long decline of Iran’s reform movement, which had largely dropped the harsh anti-Israeli and anti-U.S. rhetoric of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and sought to build international ties. | | | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks Wednesday in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan. | | | But supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final word on all matters, has stood by the president, even calling this week for Palestinian militants to step up their fight to drive Israelis out of Jerusalem. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10460807
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| | Worldandnation: President says Iran will resume nuclear talks |
| | They came on a day when Parliament approved most of the president's hard-line nominees for key Cabinet posts, including the foreign and interior ministers. | | | MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Ex-Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Aleman faces civil trial in the United States over allegations he purchased U.S. bank certificates with money stolen from Nicaragua's government, the American Embassy said Wednesday. | | | Bush: Long as he's president, U.S. will keep up terror fight |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/25/Worldandnation/President_says_Iran_w.shtml
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| | United Press International - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Tehran Monday in the first state visit to Iran by an Iraqi head of state in almost 40 years. | | | After a meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Talabani said that he expects Iran's help in the fight against terrorism, the BBC reported. | | | Ahmadinejad denied allegations by the United States that Iran has been helping terrorists enter Iraq and fomenting tension between the Shiite majority and Sunni minority. |
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| | WorldNetDaily: Ex-president of Iran backs nuking Israel |
| | We hope that problems will be solved on the side of right, justice, and truth, he said. | | | Former Iranian president Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, in a major speech, has advocated the annihilation of the state of Israel with nuclear weapons. | | | If the Islamic world comes to possess nuclear weapons, he said in his "World Al-Quds Day" sermon, attended by thousands of Islamic worshippers, their use in attacking Israel would "leave nothing on the ground" in the Jewish state, but would only damage Islam. |
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| | CBC News: Nuclear fears grow as Iranian president takes office |
| | In Wednesday's ceremony, Khamenei issued a statement confirming Ahmadinejad as the new president. | | | Ahmadinejad, 48, is a hardline conservative and a strong supporter of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in matters of state in Iran's system of clerical rule. | | | Iran's new president, Mahoud Ahmadinejad, took office on Wednesday amid growing international pressure over his country's nuclear program. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/08/03/Iran-050803.html
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| | President Says Iran Willing to Share Nukes |
| | About a half-dozen EU member nations — among them Italy, Spain and Portugal — are openly questioning the authority of France, Britain and Germany to negotiate a resolution at the board meeting on behalf of the European Union, said the official. | | | President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the comments after meeting Turkey's prime minister on the sidelines of a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. | | | Russia quickly registered its opposition to trying to impose sanctions in the U.N. Security Council, and the White House acknowledged Wednesday that President Bush was unable to get a commitment from Chinese President Hu Jintao. |
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| | President-elect: Iran ready to help Iraq’s reconstruction |
| | The Iraqi premier, for his part said that the election of Ahmadinejad as | | | ’s next president indicated the will of the Iranian nation. | | | Ahmadinejad said that the expansion of commercial ties between Iran and Iraq, plans to connect a railroad from Basra to Khorramshahr, to build an oil pipeline from Basra to Abadan, and to launch an airline between Tehran and Baghdad would benefit the two sides. |
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| | Syria's President Concludes Iran Visit - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY |
| | Syria's President Concludes Iran Visit - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY | | | Assad -- who arrived in Tehran on 7 August -- is the first foreign leader to visit Ahmadinejad, a religious conservative who took the oath of office on 6 August following his election victory in June. | | | 8 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Asad today concludes an official visit to Tehran, one day after he and Iran's new president, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, called for closer cooperation. |
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| | Iran's President Bans Western Music |
| | Following eight years of reformist-led rule in Iran, Ahmadinejad won office in August on a platform of reverting to ultraconservative principles promoted by the revolution. | | | Bootleg videos and DVDs of films banned by the state are widely available in the black market. | | | Since then, he has jettisoned Iran's moderation in foreign policy and pursued a purge in the government, replacing pragmatic veterans with former military commanders and inexperienced religious hard-liners. |
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| | Encyklopedia |
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| | Iranians say Israel spat really about nukes - Mideast/N. Africa - MSNBC.com |
| | “Our respected president has not said anything new or unprecedented about Israel to justify such a huge political tumult,” wrote Hossein Shariatmadari, who was appointed to his post as editor of the Kayhan daily by Iran’s Supreme Leader. | | | But other Iranians reckon the president made an error of judgment. | | | Before Ahmadinejad aired his views on Israel, European diplomats said they would probably not push for a referral to the Security Council in November. |
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| | Iran's New President - New York Times |
| | Ahmadinejad dethroned a better-known establishment candidate, in this case a former president, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. | | | Ahmadinejad little resembles the departing president, Mohammad Khatami, a reformist intellectual. | | | The winner assumes Iran's highest elective office, but no president to date has been able to defy the wishes of the unelected ayatollahs who rule the country. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/30/opinion/30thu2.html?ex=1277784000&en=fa15faa092c3bb74&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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| | IRVAJ English - |
| | Tehran, Iran -- One of the bodyguards of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents. | | | The newspaper report made no mention of Ahmadinejad’s whereabouts during the attack on his bodyguards’ vehicle, but Zabol residents reached by telephone said there were rumors in the town that the hard-line president himself was the target of the attack, which took place near Zabol. | | | “In the ensuing armed clash, the driver of the vehicle, who was an indigenous member of the security services, and one of the president’s bodyguards died, while another bodyguard was wounded”, the newspaper, which was founded by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote. |
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| | Technorati Tag: Iran President |
| | if Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were to disappear... | | | Rumsfeld Dismisses Reports of Plans To Attack Iran, United States, allies attempting to resolve nuclear standoff diplomatically. | | | Posts tagged Iran President per day for the last 30 days. |
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| | Khatami, German president discuss Iran's nuclear policy - Irna |
| | Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami stressed on Iran's right to have a civilian nuclear program during his talks with German leaders, including President Horst Koehler and designated Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. | | | Iran not in breach of international law, says British MP | | | The ex-chief executive expressed concern that western countries would not be able to properly assess and make decisions on the Iranian nuclear issue, given the political pressure of certain powers like the United States. |
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http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-20/0511187428163443.htm
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