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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reason to smile: his opponents in this June's presidential election appear to be in some disarray. Former President Mohammed Khatami withdrew from the race late Monday, declaring his support for former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi. The news reflects the confusion in the anti-Ahmadinejad camp that began last week when Moussavi threw his hat in the ring. The reluctant Khatami had previously agreed to stand only after exhaustive negotiations with Moussavi had failed to convince the former Prime Minister to run against Ahmadinejad...
...When Moussavi declared his own intention to run last week, some longtime reformist commentators expressed skepticism about his intentions. But Khatami had long made clear that he would run only as the consensus candidate of the anti-Ahmadinejad forces, and even then, reluctantly. He appears to have taken Moussavi's entry into the race as a cue to bow out and declare his support for the former Prime Minister. (See pictures of the legacy of Iran's revolution...
...Conservative websites feasted on the news of Khatami's withdrawal. The pro-Ahmadinejad site Raja News presented a picture of a broken Khatami with divisions in his ranks. The site claims that in one session with supporters on Sunday, Khatami was asked why he was reluctant to persevere, and answered, "One of my apprehensions is that those around me aren't sincere. Three, four of the people who encouraged me to run also went after Moussavi and invited...
...signed a $1 billion arms deal with Iran and supported Iran’s nuclear ambitions. During Putin’s 2007 visit to Tehran, the first trip to the Iranian capital by a Kremlin leader since Joseph Stalin’s visit in 1943, Putin and Iranian President Ahmadinejad discussed Iran’s nuclear energy program...
...Westerners are not the only ones eyeing Iraq. Last March, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad became the first Iranian leader to visit Baghdad. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is also expected to travel to Iraq soon, to renew once strong economic and commercial ties between the two countries...