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.
Iran’s harder line
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.
Hardliners to dominate Irans new cabinet – sources
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 29 With Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set to take office on August 4, knowledgeable sources expect major reshuffles in the government. All eyes are now on candidates chosen for the major portfolios. Sources close to the conservative camp tell Iran Focus that a number of hard-line Majlis deputies are to be given high-profile ministerial posts.
Hardliners to dominate Irans new cabinet – sources
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 29 With Irans new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set to take office on August 4, knowledgeable sources expect major reshuffles in the government. All eyes are now on candidates chosen for the major portfolios. Sources close to the conservative camp tell Iran Focus that a number of hard-line Majlis deputies are to be given high-profile ministerial posts.
Iran’s human face is gone. Hardline vote-riggers have spirited it away
The Times: The recent Iranian presidential elections were a triumph for the principle of one man, one vote. And the man with the vote this time, as always, was the countrys Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Irans new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, may well be the choice of the urban poor, the anti-sleaze candidate and the favourite of the military. But ultimately, hes the winner because hes also the guy who did best with one key demographic bearded sixtysomething clerics called Ali who enjoy wielding supreme power within theocratic republics.
Record number of street children in Iran capital
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 28 – Some 1,949 street children were rounded up from the streets of Tehran during the spring period, according to the head of Social Service in the Iranian capitals town hall. Mohammad-Reza Fardin told a state-run news agency that some 15,593 children, of which 1,487 were girls and 14,106 were boys, were rounded up in the streets of Tehran during the period starting July 10, 2004 and ending June 21 of this year.
