Iran's 2009 Presidential Election.Special IPS News Report.
Iran Commentary
By Uncle Monty.
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IPS SPECIAL:
IPS SPECIAL:
Iran Goes to the Polls. Iranians are heading to
the polls to decide between the incumbent Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad and three rivals, Mohsen Razai, Mehdi Karroubi
and Mir Hossein Mousavi - seen as the main contender. The
world is watching. The outcome will be taken as an indicator
of the prospects for success of U.S. President Barack Obama's
diplomatic outreach to Tehran. The two reformist-leaning
candidates - Karroubi and Mousavi - are emphasising
dialogue with the West.
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POLITICS:
Iranian Elections Could Shape U.S. Engagement.
By Daniel Luban and Ali Gharib.
WASHINGTON (IPS) - Washington is waiting anxiously on the
outcome of Friday's Iranian presidential elections, as incumbent
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attempts to fend off challenger
Mir Hossein Mousavi in a contest with significant implications
for the diplomatic atmosphere between Iran and the U.S.
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:: UPDATE ON TODAY'S JUNE
12th VOTING INSIDE IRAN ::
Iranians vote in droves, Mousavi ally claims lead.
Iranians vote in droves, Mousavi ally claims lead.
By Parisa Hafezi and Zahra Hosseinian.
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Iranian Voter at Tehran Political Rally.
Iran Commentary By Uncle Monty.Wearing green at Iran’s 2009 Presidential Election is
nothing to do with the politics of ecology, but rather a
mark of opposition to the incumbent Islamic President
and firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the supporters of
his most noted rival Mir Hossein Mousavi, who as a former
and firebrand Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the supporters of
his most noted rival Mir Hossein Mousavi, who as a former
Prime Minster is running to unseat the archconservative
Ahmadinejad from winning a second term at the political
helm of Shi'ite Iran.
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Mousavi’s supporters have been rallying nightly all over
Tehran and all dressed up in their best green from head to
toe. Many of his backers are those Iranians who were born
after the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamic Revolution in
1979 over the CIA-back tyranny and westernised culture
of Shah Pahlavi. They are not embedded to the Islamic
Revolution like many of those who lived under the Shah's
Shahanshah status and at the rise of then aging Khomeini.
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Many of those young people who support Mousavi see
Many of those young people who support Mousavi see
Ahmadinejad as too strict and conservative for their
modernistic and western outlook and youthful taste and
rebellious lifestyle. But Ahmadinejad will not be easily
unseated, although it is possible that neither he nor his
strongest rival Mousavi will win out right on June 12th and
thus a run off election would then be called for June 19th
all across Iran. A run-off could then more likely endanger
Ahmadinejad’s hopes of staying president. His base is in
rural Iran and far away from “liberal” Tehran. At cities
like Esfahan, Iran’s third largest city, and at smaller
towns like Rasht at the Caspian Sea, of which I have
both visited while I was inside fascinating Iran during
the last month of 2007, I don’t see Mir Hossein
Mousavi making much headway over President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nor do I see his other political
rivals Mohsen Razai and Mehdi Karroubi, getting far
either. Unless, of course, something extraordinary
happens at Iran’s Presidential Election, which takes
place tomorrow after a bitter three-week campaign
of threats and mudslinging by both sides.
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The 2009 Iran Election is perhaps the most watched
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The 2009 Iran Election is perhaps the most watched
election outside of Iran, especially in America, of any
recent times since such may well determine the fate
of Iran at the hitchy hands of miltary Israel and the
Western powers’ determination in attempting to rein in
and/or prevent Iran’s nuclear rise on the world’s political
and miltary stage. Whatever should happened at the
presidential election will not, in my opinion, bring
about a lull or halt to Iran’s nuclear ambitions whether
for domestic energy use or for what the West and Israel
says is primarily for a nuclear-armed Iran. Many young
Iranians also want less confrontation with the West and
want to open the country to a less divisive figure like
Ahmadinejad and his additional followers among the
anti-American Revolutionary Guard. "The Great
Satan" isn't so alive among the young crowd as it
still is among the hardliners of Islamic Iran.
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If reformist Mousavi is elected, then the hope of the West is
increased for open dialogue, but if Ahmadinejad is re-elected
then the same old story of confrontation is then in replay for
the West and America’s Obama, who is talking double talk to
Iran while still bending over backwards to accommodate the
Israeli lobby at Tel Aviv and Washington, D.C. Frankly,
I don't think Obama or his secretary of state Hilary
Clinton know a darn thing about the Iranian people nor
their remarkable culture and human history. Iranians
are neither Arabs nor Europeans, they are a separate
and distinct people all of their own.
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The issue of the economy and oil revenues will
play a significant part in the outcome, too, of
Iran's 2009 Presidential Election. And such is
also beside other subjective factors like the
personality and politics of Ahmadinejad himself.
Like many others, I now anxiously await the
polling outcome of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Mohsen Razai, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein
Mousavi, at the hands of my clear admiration
for the Iranian people.
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Iran's Recent Missile Tests.
Iran's Recent Missile Tests.
:: Latest Iran Political News ::
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Ahmadinejad faces election challenge from moderate.
By Parisa Hafezi.
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSEVA14340720090611
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Gay, Black, Jewish Klansmen. No Way!!
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Upcoming: The Unelected Vigilante. By Uncle Monty....
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