Word: ahmadinejad
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...pictures of Mir-Hossein Mousavi as he prepared to run against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June...
...MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, who had previously likened citizens protesting the results of the nation's disputed presidential election to "dirt and dust" --JUNE...
TUMULT IN TEHRAN After incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's June presidential election by what many considered an implausibly wide margin, millions of Iranians massed in protest. Opposition supporters braved beatings by paramilitary thugs and sidestepped a crackdown on the media by spreading news through Facebook and Twitter. There was no happy ending for the protesters--Ahmadinejad's win was certified--but the popular dissatisfaction they embodied marked an unprecedented, ongoing challenge to Iran's conservative theocracy...
...Iran's political factions insist on the country's right to enrich uranium. And the increasingly bitter struggle for power in Tehran following last June's disputed election has not only pushed the nuclear issue to the margins of the regime's agenda; it also appears to have tied Ahmadinejad's hands in making a deal. When details of the Tehran reactor-fuel agreement were revealed, Ahmadinejad was savagely criticized across Iran's political spectrum, for incompetence in signing away a uranium stockpile created at considerable geopolitical expense, and for even accepting a link between that stockpile and Iran...
...With both Obama and Ahmadinejad having been painted into corners, the deadlock is unlikely to be broken by the sanctions that are expected to be put in place in the coming months. Hawks will argue that's because Iran is intractably committed to building nuclear weapons; doves will say that diplomacy wasn't given a serious chance. And those who insisted on a time limit for diplomatic efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program will almost certainly do the same on sanctions. That could force Obama, in the next year or two, to either hit the proverbial "reset" button...