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After being banned from election, Iran's Rafsanjani blasts ruling clerics, report says
Associated PressTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Banned from upcoming elections, Iran's former president has leveled harsh criticism at the Islamic Republic's clerical rulers, saying they are doing a poor job running the country, an Iranian pro-reform website reported late on...Tags: Iran's Nuclear Program, Tehran (Iran), Elections, Islam, Iran
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Iran president denounces aide's disqualification from election
TEHRAN — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday denounced as unjust the supervisory electoral body's disqualification of his top aide from next month's presidential poll and said he plans to appeal to the nation's supreme leader,...
Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran (Iran), Elections, Polls, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Iran bars candidates for presidential election
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities barred two potentially powerful and disruptive candidates from running in next month's presidential election on Tuesday, ensuring a contest largely among hardliners loyal to the clerical supreme leader. Akbar Hashemi...Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran (Iran), U.S. Elections, Elections, Islam
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Iran's rulers risk alienating voters by candidate bans
ReutersDUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's clerical rulers may have sought to remove any challenge to their grip by barring two vivid contenders from next month's presidential election, but they risk alienating voters already disillusioned by the violent aftermath of the...Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran (Iran), Elections, Islam, Polls
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Iran election overseers hint at barring former president from running in next month's vote
Associated PressTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's election overseers said Monday they will bar candidates who are physically weak from running in next month's presidential election, a reference to a former leader seen as a threat to hard-liners. Ex-president Akbar...Tags: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Elections, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran
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Review: 'Strange Rebels' by Christian Caryl
The rebels of Christian Caryl's "Strange Rebels" are a motley lot. They include Margaret Thatcher, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers, Pope John Paul II, Deng Xiaoping, and the Afghan insurgents who fought back against the Soviet invasion...
Tags: Labour Party (UK), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, China, Iran
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How Deepa Mehta Overcame Protests to Film Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children'
ReutersMay 03 (TheWrap.com) - Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" is a sprawling book that its author has described as a "love letter to India" -- a chronicle of the country's birth and occasionally troubled history as experienced by a boy born at the...Tags: BBC, Tehran (Iran), Justice and Rights, Islam, Authors
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'The Walking' continues the journey of Iranian immigrants
In "The Walking," a simple and pure young man circles half the world, on foot, by ship and plane, to a place he's longed to see. As a boy growing up in Iranian Kurdistan, Saladin lost himself in the dreamy vision of California he's seen in the movies....Tags: Migration, Arts and Culture, Immigration, Human Rights, Islam
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Other venues: 'Forrest Gump,' 'The Terminator' and 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org *"The Waiting Room" (U.S.; Peter Nicks, 2012) Shot over five months in an Oakland public hospital, "The Waiting Room" explores the state of medical care for the nation's...Tags: Freida Pinto, Tehran (Iran), Chicago Tribune, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Affleck
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Middle East mess was born in the U.S.A.
Titillation over David Petraeus and political posturing over Susan Rice aside, here is the most important unasked question: Why did we foster regime change in Libya and Egypt that gave the Muslim Brotherhood control in the latter and produced a gaggle...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Islam, Wars and Interventions, Iraq, Hamas
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Ben Affleck's mission accomplished in 'Argo' ★★★ 1/2
The propulsive hostage thriller "Argo," the third feature directed by Ben Affleck, just plain works. It's heartening to encounter a film, based on fact but happy to include all sorts of exciting fictions to amp up the suspense, whose entertainment...
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, Ron Howard, Victor Garber
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Reward for killing Salman Rushdie upped by Iranian foundation
World NowThe reward for killing Salman Rushdie has been upped to $3.3 million by a semiofficial Iranian religious foundation, Iranian media reported this weekend. The increased bounty appeared to be linked to the infuriated protests coursing through the Muslim...
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