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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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