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...produce a parliament with mostly pro-Ahmadinejad legislators? Is that not then a vote of confidence for the current government? I don't believe that people voted for the government. I think people came to the ballot boxes to vote for their revolution, their state, and their Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, theocratic Iran's paramount politico-spiritual authority and unquestioned ruler]. That's a point where the West misunderstands us and our elections...
...including gusty winds and sleet, which caused several boats to capsize.But the Crimson remained consistent, and the A division pair recorded a win in one of Sunday’s four races. Harvard was represented in the B division by a pair of sophomores, skipper Alex Bick and crew Ali Beyer. The pair sailed to a sixth-place finish.Boston College’s first team ran away with the victory, and their unofficial second team would have placed second.“It was just basically getting experience, so that more people could get to sail,” Charles...
...clear indication of the split among conservatives, the Wide Coalition of Fundamentalists, close to the more moderate conservative figures such as former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and current Tehran mayor Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, wrote a formal letter of complaint to the Guardian Council accusing pro-Ahmadinejad conservatives of irregular activities at some polling stations...
...seats would go to the conservatives," commented Mohammad Atrianfar, an advisor to technocratic forces around the likes of former President Akbar Rafsanjani. "But the situation speaks for itself," he added, pointing to the fact that the Tehran candidate with the highest votes, current Majles Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, still received a million votes less than the leading reformist candidate in the movement's electoral heyday...
...conservatives' may not have the same level of mass support as the reformists once did, but they are better organized. Many voters arrived at ballot boxes (erroneously) convinced that the only list backed by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was that of the pro-Ahmadinejad UPC. They had been told that in their mosques, or through text messages sent to their mobile phones, or through neighborhood word-of-mouth. At the Lorzadeh Mosque in southern Tehran where President Ahmadinejad cast his ballot, Golbarg Tavakoli, an old lady who could barely walk had come, she said, "to support...