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...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic missteps, bellicose rhetoric and beige windbreakers. But the man with the best shot at unseating the fiery incumbent in Iran's Presidential elections isn't the youthful or charismatic candidate one might expect. Though he served as Iran's Prime Minister during the 1980s, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the pragmatic reformist who has emerged as Ahmadinejad's most serious challenger, is stepping back into the political spotlight after what the Iranian media has dubbed "20 years of silence." Mousavi's low profile may work to his benefit. Iranians seeking an alternative to Ahmadinejad's truculence have latched...
...enough to remember compare the atmosphere on Tehran's streets ahead of Friday's election to the heady days of Iran's revolution 30 years ago. For a week now, the capital's main arteries have been clogged by tens of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, often in cars and on motorbikes, waving large green banners, stretching their torsos out the windows to dance to blaring techno beats composed for the candidate, urging a vote for the man best placed to unseat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...Death to the government of potato!' SUPPORTERS of Iranian presidential hopeful Mir-Hossein Moussavi, referring to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who distributed 400,000 tons of free potatoes in the run-up to the country's June 12 election...
...Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and shouting slogans like "Ahmadi, you're my life! You're my future President!" Facing them - separated by a line of police and plainclothes security officials - stood a crowd of young men at least twice as large. Dressed in green to express support for the moderate challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi, they chanted back, "Death to this government that lies to its own people!" Scenes like these are emblematic of Iran's main political divide in the run-up to its presidential elections on June...
Iran's voters had been anticipating a heated discussion in their country's first-ever presidential candidates' debate, but even then, Wednesday night's showdown between incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and moderate challenger Mir-Hossein Moussavi was a rough-and-tumble affair that exceeded expectations. And the new season of televised politics could get even nastier...