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...Sensing popular support in the electorate for hard-won reforms, the face-lifted right wing distanced itself from familiar right-spectrum parties and themes, instead choosing an image of progress and "service to the people," signaled by their name, 'Developers.' Showcasing only two known figures - former minority leader Gholamali Haddad-Adel, and the twice-defeated presidential contender Ahmad Tavakoli - the Abadgaran responded to Iranians' disillusionment with politics by offering candidates with professional expertise rather than ideology...
...What all the candidates on our list have in common is their economic expertise and their revolutionary experience," says Haddad-Adel's 30-year old son Farid, who has been active in the campaign. "Some of these people have been tortured in the Shah's prisons, or have been wounded in the holy Iran-Iraq war," he says, adding, "we are loyal to this regime and the leader," pointing to Ayatollah Khamenei's portrait on his mobile phone screen for emphasis...
...differ fundamentally from reformists in that they do not question the vast constitutional power of unelected bodies, they still prefer to be called reformist. "We don't believe in the reforms of the so-called reformists. We will implement our own understanding of reforms in an Islamic Iran," says Haddad-Adel. "Real reforms," he says, "means a better standard of living within Islamic morals...
...progress and the benefits of the free market, here in Latin America unemployment, social injustice and organized crime are increasing. Druglords rule poor communities. The U.S. must pay serious attention to this troubling situation, or there will be Taliban-style organizations forming south of the Rio Grande. LUIZ FELIPE HADDAD Niteroi, Brazil...
...event aimed to help Americans understand that “Islam has no place for violent attacks like the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center,” said Laila El-Haddad, the graduate student advisor to the Harvard Islamic Society...