Reuters: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Sunday the European Union should put forward new proposals to resolve the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program after a hard-liner was elected president of the Islamic Republic. The EU’s “big three” — Britain, France and Germany — are negotiating with Iran in the name of the 25-nation bloc for a halt to Iran’s nuclear program that they, along with the United States, suspect is a front for making atomic weapons.
German chancellor wants more concessions for Iran
Discontents and dangers
The Times – Leading Article: Elections in Iran are windows through which the regimes internal struggles can be glimpsed; they are not open democratic contests. The vote is given to all; but the choice offered to voters is much more rigidly circumscribed than outsiders tend to realise. Would-be candidates must first pass muster with the powerful Council of Guardians; and in this years presidential elections, it barred some 1,000 hopefuls, including all women with the temerity to apply, from running.
Tehran Whispers
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 27 – Decades of authoritarian
rule have forced Iranians to develop innovative ways of expressing themselves. Iran Focus reporters in the sprawling capital gauge the daily mood as seen or heard in graffiti, jokes, comments, and so on.
Tehran Whispers
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 27 – Decades of authoritarian
rule have forced Iranians to develop innovative ways of expressing themselves. Iran Focus reporters in the sprawling capital gauge the daily mood as seen or heard in graffiti, jokes, comments, and so on.
No chance for now for Iran-US rapprochement: analysts
AFP: After eight years of often conciliatory diplomacy and an presidential election where resuming ties with the United States was floated as a real possibility, Mahmood Ahmadinejad’s victory has abruptly slammed the door on any immediate chance of making up with Washington, analysts say.
Rumsfeld dismisses “mock” Iranian elections
AFP: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday dismissed as illegitimate the landslide presidential election victory in Iran by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s hard-line mayor. “There were over 1,000 candidates that were disqualified — that weren’t even allowed to run,” Rumsfeld told the Fox News Sunday television program.
Ahmadinejad says Iran ‘does not need’ US
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.
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.
