Word: ahmadenijad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...eyes of low-income Iranians, his most loyal supporters, the President now seems less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats. A year into his first term, prices continue to rise, the economy is stagnating and people no longer debate whether Ahmadenijad has any surprise remedies in store. My family's weekly lunches, which used to devolve into loud arguments between Ahmadinejad's supporters, who claimed him as Iran's savior, and critics, who called him a religious thug, now center around the hit television series Narges. "He showed up with so much energy...
...What do Iranians make of the allegation that emerged in the U.S. that Ahmadenijad may have been among the men who seized American hostages...
...newspapers ran a long piece in which several key former hostage-takers denied Ahmadinejad's participation. Most of the leading hostage-takers are now reformists and oppose Ahmadinejad's conservative camp, which means they had no apparent motive to protect him. This lent their words credibility. The allegations against Ahmadenijad lost credibility in Iran when it was revealed that the photograph purporting to show a young Ahmadinejad escorting a blindfolded hostage was dug out by the Iranian Mujahedeen-Khalqh Organization, the Marxist-Islamist exile opposition group classified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization. The MKO fought alongside...
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