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There is some bad news (or good dependin your side) in Iran this past weekend. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been reelected in a landslide victory over his main challenger, Mir Hossein Moussavi. The debate that comes in is that Moussavi was...
...under 40 million Iranians voting. Millions of Iranian simply did not believe the result. The main demand of the protesters has been an annulment of the result and an election re-run. Iran's Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has since insisted...
...standing in elections Q&A: who's who in Iran How Iran is ruled Mr Abtahi's wife told us at the BBC that he had been picked up at his home in Tehran early on Tuesday. Meanwhile, Iranian state television said the "main agents" behind the unrest had been...
...over night, showing a surge for Mr Ahmadinejad, the three challengers were said to have demanded an audience with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Islamic Republic’s non-elected figurehead, who controls powerful institutions including...
Tags: BBC NEWS. IRAN, BIODUN IGINLA, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, NASRA ISMAIL
SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2009 by Biodun Iginla and Sunita Kureishi, BBC News and The Economist May 30th 2009From Economist.com IRAN’S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN IS UNDER WAY. EXPECT THE RETURN OF MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD AP WITH barely two weeks to go...
Tags: BC NEWS. BIODUN IGINLA, IRAN, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, SUNITA KUREISHI
"In Iran, there is no political crisis, as are the Western media, said today in Yerevan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Armenia Seyed Ali Saghaeyan. Speaking at the National Press Club, an Iranian diplomat stressed that Iran
MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009 by Nasra Ismail and Biodun Iginla, BBC News, London The election commission in Iran says the populist conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has won a second term with more than 62%. President Ahmadinejad described the...
Tags: BBC NEWS NASRA ISMAIL, IRAN ELECTIONS, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
...in Iran's presidential election, with unprecedented live television debates between the candidates and rallies attended by thousands. Four candidates are contesting the election, with Mohsen Razai and Mehdi Karroubi trailing the two main contenders...
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday demanded an end to street protests that have shaken the country since the disputed presidential election a week ago and said any bloodshed would be their leaders' fault. he defended Mahmoud...
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The peaceful progression of the Iranian elections did not allude to the ruthless beatings and violent unrest that would follow the announcement of a winner and leader of Iran's government. I spoke to soon in my earlier post. I thought because the...
Tags: Ahmadinejad, Iran, Iran elections 2009, Middle East, Moussavi