Word: ahmadinejad
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...October's U.N.-brokered deal to reduce Iran's nuclear stockpile appears to be collapsing. Yet many Iranians no longer buy their leaders' anti-American orthodoxy. While the Nov. 4 displays of defiance were not as large as June's protests over the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the persistence of such demonstrations is proof that much has changed since the Islamic revolution. The crowds at the former U.S. embassy chanted their traditional "Death to America!" but on other streets new antigovernment slogans were taking hold: "Either you're with them or with us," directed at President Obama...
...think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hasn't been getting much love from the global community over Iran's nuclear ambitions, you should hear what Iran's politicians have been saying...
...late October, Ahmadinejad was sounding pretty confident. He portrayed the International Atomic Energy Agency's proposal for an enrichment of Iran's nuclear fuel outside the country as a win for the Islamic Republic. Furthermore, the Iranian President's rhetoric was unusually conciliatory towards the U.S. and its allies. "Today, the conditions are ripe for nuclear cooperation at international levels," he concluded. The proposed agreement in the Vienna talks, he declared, showed that the country was "moving in the right direction." (See pictures of IAEA director Mohamed ElBaradei at work...
...action is the latest in a geopolitical tug-of-war between President Obama and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. How the Administration's newest signal is received may depend on the listener. The actions could hearten some Iranian dissidents, who urged President Obama to take sides during surprise counter-demonstrations to their governments celebration of the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy seizure. It could also be welcomed by some Sunni Muslim nations at odds with the Shi'ite regime in Iran...
...unaware of any direct precedent of the government seizing mosques, and said the judge in the case will probably scrutinize the move closely because it involves houses of worship. While it would be impossible to have spun this up overnight in response to a thrust and parry from the Ahmadinejad regime, she said it's possible that Iran's decision to walk away from a nuclear recycling arrangement may have played a role in the timing...