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...MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, President of Iran, who had previously likened citizens protesting the results of the nation's disputed presidential election to "dirt and dust" --JUNE...
TUMULT IN TEHRAN After incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner of Iran's June presidential election by what many considered an implausibly wide margin, millions of Iranians massed in protest. Opposition supporters braved beatings by paramilitary thugs and sidestepped a crackdown on the media by spreading news through Facebook and Twitter. There was no happy ending for the protesters--Ahmadinejad's win was certified--but the popular dissatisfaction they embodied marked an unprecedented, ongoing challenge to Iran's conservative theocracy...
...Iran, which insists its uranium enrichment is purely for peaceful purposes, rejects the notion that its stockpile is a security threat. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters had initially trumpeted the deal as a great victory because, they said, it represented the West tacitly accepting Iran's right to enrichment. But for Washington and its allies, it was simply a "first step" toward a deal to end enrichment in Iran. Although Iran is entitled to peaceful enrichment as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the U.S., Israel, France and Britain insist that Iran can't be trusted to exercise...
Though Iran's presidential election was settled almost six months ago, demonstrations against its controversial outcome continue. On Dec. 7, Iran's National Student Day, thousands of university students, who dominate the antigovernment movement, flooded Tehran to rally against the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two days of marches--the largest in months--resulted in more than 200 arrests and a threat from Iranian prosecutors to take stronger action against protesters...
...Following the disputed June 12 election, Montazeri publicly questioned the victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and warned Iran's security forces that they would have to answer to God for their actions against protestors. In a soul-searching letter to Iran's clerics and seminaries, Montazeri recently stated: "The goal (of the revolution) was not simply to change the names and slogans but keep the same oppression and abuses practiced by the previous regime. Everyone knows I am a defender of theocratic government, although not in the current form. The difference lies in the fact that I intended...