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...disclose information about missile development, high-explosive testing and military involvement in the nuclear program--all of which could suggest a covert nuclear weapons program. The report provides ammunition for critics pressing Iran to stop uranium enrichment. Iran's parliament, meanwhile, elected as its speaker former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani--who promptly denounced the report and said Iran may curtail its cooperation with the IAEA in the future...
...Larijani projected a presidential bearing as he accepted his election as speaker of Iran's parliament on Wednesday - a vote that boded ill for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Larijani, a high-profile arch-rival of the President, addressed global themes in his address to the opening session of the Majlis, dressing down the International Atomic Energy Agency and praising Hizballah. Despite the tough talk that was welcomed by some of the legislators with shouts of "God is great!" and "Death to America!" Larijani received a congratulatory call from European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana - an old negotiating partner. While Iran...
...parliamentary elections were something of a warm-up for the presidential election. Another potential presidential candidate, Ali Larijani, Iran's former negotiator on its nuclear program, won a landslide victory in the city of Qom. A pragmatic conservative, he resigned from the nuclear brief last year after clashing with Ahmadinejad. Larijani had reportedly agreed to a temporary freeze of Iran's uranium-enrichment program as a good-faith gesture in talks with the West. Ahmadinejad publicly rejected the move, and the U.N. Security Council imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran...
...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...
...ease with which the Iranian regime has shrugged off those sanctions bodes ill for future success, at least so long as hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is President. If anything, Iran seemed to ratchet up its defiance a month ago, when Ali Larijani, a diplomat whom European negotiators viewed as a relative moderate, was replaced as chief nuclear negotiator by a close political ally of Ahmadinejad. Sources in Tehran say that switch could not have been made without the approval of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei - a discouraging fact for those in the West who had hoped Khamenei might be tiring...