Iran Focus: London, UK, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
AP Photo shows Irans Ahmadinejad as 1979 US hostage-taker
AP Photo shows Irans new President as 1979 US hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
AP Photo shows Irans new President as 1979 US hostage-taker
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 – Iran Focus has learnt that the photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran was taken by an Associated Press photographer in November 1979.
Regime change in Iran
Washington Times: “The most radical portion of the population with the most dangerous Islamic fundamentalist ideas are
now in charge. Bad days to come.” Those words come from Mr. Behi, an Iranian online diarist or Web logger, or blogger. The Bush administration has been talking about regime change in Iran for some time but the mullahs in Tehran beat him to it. Granted, it was not the change Mr. Bush, or many Iranians, expected.
Iran’s harder line
Boston Globe – GLOBE EDITORIAL: The election of Iran’s new president, Tehran’s Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivers to the reactionary forces around Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the last power node that had been in the hands of reformists. Now that reformists have been excised from the Parliament, city councils, and the presidency, there is no longer any institutional opposition to Khamenei and his loyalists.
US renews threat to take Iran nuclear row to UN
AFP: The United States on Tuesday renewed its warning to Iran that it could face possible UN action if it refused to negotiate a halt to its suspected nuclear weapons program. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed Washington’s continued support for efforts by Britain, France and Germany to wean Tehran off any nuclear arms ambitions with security and economic incentives.
Irans Ahmadinejad refutes aides soft comments
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 28 Hours after an aide to Iran’s president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a German-based Iranian satellite television channel that the new president has no intention of introducing an austere social and cultural policy, Ahmadinejad issued a statement through his office emphasising that only his own statements or those by his office represent his views.
Irans Ahmadinejad refutes aides soft comments
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 28 Hours after an aide to Iran’s president-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a German-based Iranian satellite television channel that the new president has no intention of introducing an austere social and cultural policy, Ahmadinejad issued a statement through his office emphasising that only his own statements or those by his office represent his views.
Exclusive: Photo shows Irans Ahmadinejad as hostage-taker of US diplomats
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 Iran Focus has obtained a photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran in 1979. Prior to the first round of the presidential elections on June 17, Iran Focus was the first news service to reveal Ahmadinejads role in the seizure of the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
Exclusive: Photo shows Irans Ahmadinejad as hostage-taker of US diplomats
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 29 Iran Focus has obtained a photograph of Irans newly-elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, holding the arm of a blindfolded American hostage on the premises of the United States embassy in Tehran in 1979. Prior to the first round of the presidential elections on June 17, Iran Focus was the first news service to reveal Ahmadinejads role in the seizure of the U.S. embassy
in Tehran.
