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News Source: The Economist
| 4 months ago
Iran’s disputed presidential election A hollow victory Jul 2nd 2009 From The Economist print edition Mahmoud Ahmadinejad keeps power but loses legitimacy, particularly among the middle class THE case is closed. The landslide claimed by Mahmoud...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 4 months ago
Iran's defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that he will disclose "tell-all documents" proving fraud and irregularities in Iran's recent presidential election, local satellite Press TV reported on Thursday. Mousavi, who has rejected...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 4 months ago
Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moqaddam said that some 1,032 people were detained during post-election unrests in Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday. Speaking to reporters here on Wednesday,...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 4 months ago
Iran's former president has joined ranks with the country's embattled reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, and accused the Iranian government of failing its people in the recent election and condemning the subsequent crackdown on...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| 4 months ago
No election since the inception of the Islamic Republic has left the Iranian nation so divided in all its components as the one that took place on 12 June. It has divided the clergy in Qom, the leading political conservative or principalist actors in...
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News Source: Contra Costa Times
| 4 months ago
Mousavi said he was troubled by "the bitter, widespread distrust of the people toward the declared election results and the government that caused it." "It's not yet too late," said Mousavi, who has slipped from public view in recent days. "It's our...
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News Source: The Scotsman
| 4 months ago
S embattled but defiant regime is ramping up its rhetoric against the West and increasing repression at home â but is failing to silence leading opposition voices who are furious with president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's "stolen" election. Despite...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 4 months ago
Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main challenger in Iran's June 12 presidential election, has again rejected the results of the disputed vote. The denunciation came two days after Iranian authorities officially confirmed the re-election of President...
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News Source: Telegraph India
| 4 months ago
Tehran, July 1 (Reuters): Two losing contenders in Irans presidential election denounced the result today in clear defiance of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying Mahmoud Ahmadinejads next cabinet would be illegitimate. Both men issued...
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News Source: Japan Times
| 4 months ago
Iran's powerful Guardian Council on Monday formally certified incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the June 12 presidential election, whose results have been contested by forces supporting moderate reform candidates former Prime...