Word: ahmadinejad
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...those sentiments became strong enough to defeat the Soviet forces and send the Shah into exile. Importing foreign ideologies or language can create bitter historical ironies. The nuclear program that the Shah championed as a symbol of his Westernization and modernization is now, in the hands of the Ahmadinejad regime, a symbol of precisely the opposite sentiment: defiance against the West. Ever since the Taraki government changed Afghanistan's official title to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, many Afghans have been skittish about the term democracy, associating it with the communist regime...
Amanpour, 52, is best known for her role as CNN's chief international correspondent, having interviewed world leaders ranging from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to former French President Jacques Chirac...
...Ahmadinejad-isms...
...Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country would begin enriching its uranium stockpiles beyond the 3.5 percent threshold necessary for electricity generation. Ostensibly, the move is designed to allow for the production of medical isotopes. But many nuclear security experts note that the announced plan for 20 percent enrichment enables Iran to perform 90 percent of the process necessary to produce weapons-grade uranium under the guise of medical research. As such, the United States must take a very strong stance against further Iranian enrichment on both the domestic and international fronts...
...that its nuclear program is intended only for peaceful purposes like power generation and medical research. If so, then it needs to show its commitment to said purposes by returning to the negotiating table and adopting one of the compromise plans drafted by the international community. Last month, President Ahmadinejad publicly rejected a reasonable proposal to have Iran export the vast majority of its uranium stockpiles to Russia, to be processed under international safeguards. Without even considering these options, the Iranian government cannot claim that the international community is somehow denying its sovereign rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty...