Word: ahmadinejad
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...last week. “When he says he wants to promote democracy in Iran, he gives money to these outside groups, and we’re in here suffering. The pressure is on people who are trying to promote human rights inside the country. I feel [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad and President Bush are like two blades of a scissor.”Given the U.S. government’s ability to ignore the abuses of its allies, writes Shirin Ebadi, Nobel laureate and human rights activist, “It is hard not to see the Bush administration?...
...that perspective the war has been a disaster. First, the foremost winner has been Iran: it rid itself of its greatest threat, Saddam and his military, without firing a shot; won the Dec. 15 Iraq elections; owns the south, particularly Basra; and has felt the freedom to elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who, in turn, has felt the freedom to reclaim leadership of radical Islam, leadership Osama bin Laden claimed on 9/11. Second, the foremost loser--after Iraq itself--has been Israel, whose leaders must now fear more than ever the new strategic maneuver room afforded Iran by the U.S.'s ineptitude...
...exchange for Security Council referral. And while its nuclear stance is remarkably popular across the political spectrum at home, even building a bomb wouldn't answer the regime's basic problem: How to create jobs for the millions of young Iranians chafing under their poverty, who elected President Ahmadinejad on promises to put food on their tables. Foreign investment and trade remains the key to transforming Iran's economic prospects, and prospects for attracting either would be doomed by a confrontation with the West...
...Larijani: You have differences of views with us. But having differences of views doesn't mean animosity. I don't know why you are focusing on this statement by President Ahmadinejad...
...Still, Ahmadinejad does not determine Iran's foreign policy alone. It is ultimately in the hands of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, which reports to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And despite the Iranian president's defiant posture, the National Security Council has signaled its continuing interest in a negotiated settlement by announcing that an Iranian delegation will visit Moscow next week for talks on a proposed Russian compromise. But with Ahmadinejad turning the nuclear issue into a populist cause, it's far from certain that the more pragmatic heads will prevail...