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 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.
Irans ruling clerics fear street protests
Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 25 A day after the surprise election of the ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran as the new President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the countrys security forces were placed on heightened state of alert throughout Saturday to prevent any street demonstrations.
Irans ruling clerics fear street protests
Iran Focus: Paris, Jun. 25 A day after the surprise election of the ultra-conservative mayor of Tehran as the new President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the countrys security forces were placed on heightened state of alert throughout Saturday to prevent any street demonstrations.
Iranian Upset, U.S. Challenge
New York Times: Even before Iranians went to the polls in their presidential election, the Bush administration declared the process rigged, saying that no matter what the outcome, Iran would be truly ruled by men who “spread terror across the world.” Yet almost no one in Washington expected the landslide victory of the conservative mayor of Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as Iran’s next president.
Western Nations Condemn Iran Vote Outcome
AP: Governments of Muslim countries offered cautious congratulations in response to Iran’s presidential election, while several Western countries Saturday sharply criticized a vote they said showed “serious deficiencies.” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the conservative mayor of Tehran, defeated his relatively moderate rival and was declared Iran’s next president. His triumph extends the conservatives’ control in Iran at a time when the nation’s nuclear program faces increasing international scrutiny.
