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RPT-NEWSMAKER-Rafsanjani rolls the dice one last time to fix Iran's future
Reuters(Repeats without change to text) * Former president defies odds and runs for office again * Political operator would look to bring more stability * Support expected from marginalised reformist groups By Marcus George DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - Iran'...Tags: Media Industry, Tehran (Iran), Elections, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Politics
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Former Iranian president Rafsanjani enters presidency ring again
ReutersDUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani registered for Iran's presidential election minutes before the expiry of the deadline for candidates to declare, Iranian media reported on Saturday. One of the Islamic Republic's best...Tags: Elections, Politics, Iran
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Iranian presidential candidates register for June election
TEHRAN — Iranian presidential candidates began registering Tuesday for the national election next month to choose a successor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Although there has been considerable political suspense over who will run, voter enthusiasm has...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Elections, Politics, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran
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Obama Dodging Key Foreign Policy Questions
The Hartford CourantIt's embarrassing when President Barack Obama's risk-averse refusal to engage foreign policy issues becomes so obvious that it's a laugh line for the president of Iran. "I do believe that some conversations and key issues must be talked about again...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, CNN (tv network), White House
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News briefs: Presidential politics; State of the Union address
Obama to take on economic anxiety in election-year State of the Union, amid GOP attacks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Addressing a divided nation amid a determined GOP campaign to take his job, President Barack Obama is preparing to issue a populist cry for...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, Movies, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Abusive Behavior
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Dallas Iranian Protest
Shana Franklin, The 33 NewsThey chanted, carried signs and cried out. Hundreds of people met outside Dallas City Hall this afternoon to show their support for Iranians who are struggling, even dying, for democracy. Rally participant, Mel Bad, says, while crying, "My dad's on the...Tags: Elections, Twitter, Inc., Facebook, YouTube, Television Industry
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Iran's Supreme Leader Declares: The Vote Stands
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIran's supreme leader vowed today he would neither reconsider vote results nor bow to public pressure over the disputed reelection of his ally President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as state-controlled broadcasting intensified a media blitz against the West....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Politics, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Television, Civil Unrest
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In this Sunday's Books: 'Death to the Dictator!' by Afsaneh Moqadam
Death to the Dictator!
A Young Man Casts a Vote in Iran's 2009 Election and Pays a Devastating Price
Afsaneh Moqadam
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 150 pp., $22
After a botched election last year decried as fraudulent by the opposition,...Tags: Prisons, Politics, Economic Sanctions, Los Angeles, Human Rights
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Sham in Iran
Today's topic: Was the Iran presidential election truly fraudulent, or is there any way incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could have won by a 2-1 margin?
Why would the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, show his hand like this? Point: Matthew Duss
I think...Tags: Politics, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Mir-Hossain Mousavi, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, BBC
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Rick Warren is an insulting choice
To understand how angry and disappointed many Democrats are that Barack Obama has invited evangelical preacher Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural, imagine if a President-elect John McCain had offered this unique honor to the Rev. Al...Tags: Marriage, Politics, Government, Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice
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Iran loses faith in clerics
Tribune foreign correspondentThe mob shouted for his blood. They called him a traitor; they yelled, "Death to Montazeri." The target of their wrath? The Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri. Once, he was heir apparent to the ruler of the country, an Iranian equivalent to Thomas...Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Parties and Movements, U.S. Elections, Politics, Constitutional Issues
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