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Monday, June 15, 2009

Iran’s day of anguish

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Protester set fires and smashed store windows on Sunday in a second day of violence as groups challenging President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election tried to keep pressure on authorities.

Anti-riot police lashed back and the regime blocked Internet sites used to rally the pro-reform campaign.

Ahmadinejad dismissed the unrest the worst in a decade in Tehran as “not important.”

He said Friday’s vote was “real and free”and insisted the results showing his landslide victory were fair and legitimate.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

‘He is a third-rate president’

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Ahmad Khorshidi, the father-in-law of Ahmadinejad’s daughter, expresses regret at having helped mastermind Iranian president’s 2005 win.

If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thought he could keep critics at bay by making his government a family affair, then he failed to anticipate the rancour that erupts when relatives start feuding among themselves.

The Iranian president has come under a withering assault from his daughter’s father-in-law,who helped mastermind his unexpected 2005 election victory.

Ahmad Khorshidi, a one time member of Ahmadinejad’s so-called “brains trust”, has thrown family loyalties to the winds by dismissing the president as “third rate” and expressing regret for having campaigned for him.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Gas pipeline deal soon, says Iran President

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Iran, Pakistan and India would soon give final shape to the proposed three nation gas pipeline, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday night. But he placed a question mark on the implementation of the June 2005 gas-by-ship contract.

The Iranian President conceded there was a clear link between the gas by ship deal to sell 5 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to lndia and New Delhi's decision to vote against Tehran at the IAEA governing board in September 2005.

Talking to the press after talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he said: "Each vote has its own impact." But he added that the India-Iran relationship was "deeper than a vote". India's vote against Iran at the IAEA "related to the past", he said. "We are now looking forward."

The IAEA votes took the Iranian nuclear issue from the domain of the atomic watchdog to the UN Security Council. Ahmadinejad was pleased that Indian officials had given a "good and appropriate response" to Washington when it came forward with words of advice for Iran before his brief visit to Delhi.

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