Word: ahmadinejad
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...Many Happy Returns, Twelfth Imam! The Mahdi, an imam who happens to be Ahmadinejad's favorite, has become the object of frenzied and government-nurtured worship
...Chavez, echoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also took on the U.N. itself in his speech - calling for nothing less than a complete "refounding" of the body to wrest it from what he called the Americans' inordinate domination. "We [the U.N. members] have become a merely deliberative organ," he complained. "We have no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world today." On Thursday, Chavez will continue his New York invasion, visiting Harlem to highlight his program of providing poor Americans with Venezuela-subsidized heating oil - something he started during his U.N. visit last year...
Extremist Islam is on everybody’s mind thanks to the Sept.11 anniversary and the thwarted plane attacks in Britain just over a month ago. And if this were not enough, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can always be trusted to provide enough spice for any recipe. As he calls for revisionist “scholarly” conferences about the Holocaust (with insulting cartoons to go along), he has repeatedly expressed that the only permanent solution for the Middle East is the “elimination of the Zionist regime...
...With the public turning inward, Ahmadinejad is now vulnerable to criticism that he hasn't improved the economy. He campaigned on a platform of creating new jobs, lowering prices and fighting corruption, but his government seems unable to fix any of those things. Although Iran's exports have benefited from the high price of oil, the costs of housing and many basic commodities have risen noticeably since the president's election. Ahmadinejad has also unnerved young Iranians by reviving some social restrictions and imposing a more Islamic atmosphere on university campuses. In recent months, the government has shut down...
...Unless he changes track, Ahmadinejad could soon be left with a small core of supporters, composed mostly of the provincial poor and radicals who share his hard-line ideology. One of my cousins still keeps faith in the president, correcting me when I fail to call him Dr. Ahmadinejad, as supporters do. "Who else stood up for Hizballah when the Israelis attacked Lebanon?" my cousin asks. But most Iranians seem to be concerned more with everyday issues like the cost of groceries and the lack of good jobs. On a recent hike with a group of Iranians from around...