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...Mousavi's low profile may work to his benefit. Iranians seeking an alternative to Ahmadinejad's truculence have latched onto Mousavi with little concern, it seems, over the fact that in the 1980s, the gray-bearded 67-year-old was at the heart of a regime that executed dissidents, took U.S. hostages and launched a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. New - though notoriously unreliable - polling suggests Mousavi has drawn ahead of Ahmadinejad after a campaign marked by scathing ad hominem attacks and rambunctious rallies. But Western onlookers weary of Ahmadinejad's antagonizing would be wise not to expect...
...Karroubi was pitted against Ahmadinejad once before, in 2005. While votes were being tallied, he claims, he took a two-hour nap and "awoke to see 1 million votes shifted." In the end, Ahmadinejad made it to the second round by only about 640,000 votes over Karroubi. "Last time, I took a nap after my morning prayer. This time, I'll stay up and read the Koran," Karroubi said smugly to a gathering of reporters three days before the election. (See the top 10 Ahmadinejad-isms...
...from the Siberian city of Irkutsk to ask if Pikalyovo was "leading a civil war" and to say that the situation was similar in her city, where workers were holding a hunger strike over unpaid wages at the local pulp mill, also owned by Basic Element. This time it took no prodding from Putin for Deripaska to announce plans to pay out some $2.8 million in back wages to about 2,000 workers. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...Inside the mosque, the crowd was delirious. The famous panegyrist Mahmood Karimi took the podium and narrated an encounter with Ahmadinejad. " 'Don't you get tired traveling from province to province?' I asked him," said Karimi. "He said, 'My heart is fueled by nuclear energy...
...Continental Hotel on the night of June 9, killing at least 9 people and injuring dozens, he only suffered injuries from flying shards of glass. If Khan had been sitting just 20 feet closer to the edge of the roof, where he and others were dining when the attack took place, he may not have survived. (See pictures of the hotel blast...