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News Source: The Scotsman
| 6 months ago
S hardline president took a final shot at rivals yesterday during his last public pre-election rally, accusing them of resorting to a smear campaign similar to the one used by Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is locked in a...
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News Source: Miami Herald
| 6 months ago
Iran — Two days before voters go to the polls, opposition campaigns in Iran's increasingly raucous presidential election campaign warned of vote-stealing, and decades-old political rivals slung more mud at one another. At a massive rally in western...
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News Source: Press TV
| 6 months ago
During a TV program on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad slammed former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi for using a recent report by Transparency International to show "the hike in corruption in Iran over the last four years." “The graph that was used is...
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News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 6 months ago
Sure, many of us are enthralled by the drama of a good physical battle. For both fans and athletes alike, a hard-fought game can get the adrenalin pumping like little else. But as a TV news producer, who has covered sporting duels around the globe, I...
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News Source: Times Online
| 6 months ago
On a platform overshadowed by the blue dome and twin minarets of a mosque, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is addressing yet another multitude of frenzied, flag-waving followers of the sort that has convulsed Tehran, day and night, for two weeks. It is the last...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 6 months ago
In a statement on the Guards' Web site, Javani drew parallels between Mousavi's campaign and the "velvet revolution" that led to the 1989 ouster of the communist government in then-Czechoslovakia. "There are many indications that some extremist (...
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News Source: The Hindu
| 6 months ago
Iran is in the grip of a high election fever with massive crowds turning out in the streets ahead of Friday’s presidential elections. If incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mustered huge crowds at a Tehran rally on Wednesday, his chief opponent...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 6 months ago
Iranians dare to dream of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad losing his job It may not be a revolution, but Tehran sees poll as the first to matter in a decade If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is worried about losing his job on Friday he is not showing it. Support...
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News Source: Middle East Security News
| 6 months ago
Cleric and former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani expressed his concerns over the presidential campaign in an open letter to Iran's supreme leader. In what is turning out to be one of the most hotly contested presidential elections in...
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News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 6 months ago
But the young Iranian law graduate, who once took pride in her distance from politics, says that Friday's presidential election is "different." So every night for a week now, Tooska has headed out with friends after midnight and joined tens of...