AFP: Iran’s president-elect Mahmood Ahmadinejad said on Sunday that his country “does not really need” to restore relations with the United States, which were cut off a quarter of a century ago. “Iran is on a path of progress and elavation, and does not really need the United States on this path,” he told a news conference.
Ahmadinejad says Iran ‘does not need’ US
Iran President-Elect Vows to Pursue Nukes
AP: Iran President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Sunday to pursue a peaceful nuclear program – an effort the United States maintains is really a cover for trying to build atomic bombs – and said his government will not be an extremist one. Ahmadinejad also said Iran did not need the United States to help it become more self-reliant.
Hard-line victory adds to political turmoil in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 26 Irans newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad huddled behind closed doors with the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to chart the new administrations policies, as the victory of ultra-conservative factions within the ruling theocracy continues to resonate in political circles in Iran and abroad.
Hard-line victory adds to political turmoil in Iran
Iran Focus: London, Jun. 26 Irans newly-elected President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad huddled behind closed doors with the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to chart the new administrations policies, as the victory of ultra-conservative factions within the ruling theocracy continues to resonate in political circles in Iran and abroad.
Iran fears capital flight after ultra-conservative victory
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 26 Irans financial markets reacted negatively to the election of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President, raising fears of capital flight and massive sell-off. We have faced a lot of uncertainty in the past few weeks, Hossein Abdoh-Tabrizi, chairman of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), said in a telephone interview.
Iran fears capital flight after ultra-conservative victory
Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 26 Irans financial markets reacted negatively to the election of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President, raising fears of capital flight and massive sell-off. We have faced a lot of uncertainty in the past few weeks, Hossein Abdoh-Tabrizi, chairman of the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE), said in a telephone interview.
Japan suspects Iran-North Korea cruise missile link – report
Reuters: Japan is worried that technology for a long-range cruise missile that can carry nuclear warheads may have been leaked to North Korea from Iran, a Japanese daily said on Sunday. At issue is technology used in cruise missiles known as Kh-55s that Ukraine exported to Iran in 2001 under former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, the Sankei Shimbun daily said, quoting Japanese government and ruling party sources.
U.S. and Europe Gird for Hard Line From Iran’s New President
Washington Post: The United States and its European allies are bracing for a tough new opponent in Iran with the election
to the presidency of Tehran’s ultra-conservative mayor, a relative unknown to the outside world whose campaign pledged to take a harder line in talks on Iran’s nuclear
program, according to U.S. and Western officials, as well as Iranian analysts.
Bitter Rafsanjani faces wilderness after gamble backfires
AFP: Having spent a quarter of a century at the nexus of Iran’s theocracy, a bitter Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani faces an uncertain future after losing his greatest, and possibly last, political gamble. A former two-term president, parliament speaker and confidant of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, it is hard to imagine the Islamic republic without one of Iran’s most recognisable figures.
Iran resistance leader: Election proves failure of appeasement
AFP: (Paris) – The victory of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran’s presidential election is proof of the failure of western governments’ policy of “appeasement” to the Islamic republic, the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi said Saturday. “Western governments have some soul-searching to do after the clear failure of years of appeasement. They must ask themselves the question what has happened so that now we have extremists in control of all the levers of power,” Rajavi said in a telephone interview from her headquarters outside Paris.
