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...parliament.) They also believe he has the support of some of the country's most influential clerics. He spoke with TIME's Nahid Siamdoust in Tehran as the election results were coming in. Pressed to predict whether his "taste" or Ahmadinejad's would triumph in future Iranian elections, Qalibaf simply says, "That the people will decide." Excerpts from the interview...
...Washington have kept up accusations against Iran, saying Tehran is involved in nothing less than training and funding a shadow army of Shi'ite militants set against U.S. forces in Iraq. In the face of these U.S. assertions, the Iraqi government publicly says it has no evidence of an Iranian training program for Iraqi militants. "We don't have the proof that the American have," says Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. "Normally the intelligence information the Americans have is not allowed to circulate." The issue was also not discussed, al-Dabbagh says, in official talks during Ahmadinejad's recent...
...Mahdi Army of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and other militias have traveled in groups numbering between 20 and 60 to Iran in a training program organized by the Quds Force that dates back to 2004. Handlers from the Quds Force, an elite paramilitary wing of the Iranian army, allegedly transport recruits to training camps near Tehran...
Conservatives loyal to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have emerged as the big winners in an Iranian parliamentary election whose large turnout surprised politicians across the spectrum. The conservative victory is not based simply on the fact that its candidates prevailed, but also on securing a 60% turnout in elections from which all the most prominent reformist candidates were disqualified from running...
...Amid the controversy, many of the signatories claim that they have been contacted by Iranian TV networks and threatened that they will lose their jobs unless they deny that they ever signed the statement. All week, conservative newspapers have run lists of names of signatories that they claim have denied their ever supporting the initiative. One famous actor, Parviz Parastoui, even published an open letter declaring, "Manijeh Hekmat has no right to decide for me." Others have reiterated their support...