1. Iran leader endorses Ahmadinejad: “Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has officially endorsed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the country’s June presidential election. Monday’s endorsement of Ahmadinejad’s victory comes ahead of his swearing-in before parliament for his second term on Wednesday, despite the president suffering a string of setbacks amid an apparent rift with his own conservative camp. ‘The official ceremony was held and supreme leader approved Mr Ahmadinejad’s presidency,’ the Arabic language al-Alam state television said.”
2. Shall he kiss his hand or shoulder… that is the question: See the awkward Ahmadinejad-Khamenei moment here.
3. Ahmadinejad’s Opponents Snub Election Ceremony: “News reports said that several leading opponents of Mr. Ahmadinejad stayed away from the ceremony Monday, including the main opposition candidate, Mir Hussein Mousavi, his ally Mehdi Karroubi and Hasan Khomeini, a reformist and the grandson of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Opposition leaders have hinted that they will stay away from the inauguration later in the week. Two former presidents who have criticized the election, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami, also boycotted Monday’s event, news reports said.”
4. Fighting for Influence in Iran’s Bazaars: “But, while Ahmadinejad had his tax run-in with the bazaar, Mousavi does not have a positive record with many bazaaris either. Older bazaaris can still remember Mousavi the firebrand leftist, who, as Prime Minister during most of the 1980s, was associated with price controls and food cooperatives during the Iran-Iraq War. But younger managers and workers generally express support for Mousavi, even though, as one pointed out, ‘Mousavi never visited the bazaar before the election.; Bazaaris felt slighted by the snub, and since its merchants are still a main conduit to Iran’s smaller towns and rural areas, this was undoubtedly communicated outside of the bazaar as well.”
5. Three American tourists held in Iran: “‘Reporting from Baghdad — Three Americans who apparently strayed across the Iranian border while on a hiking trip in the northern Iraqi region of Kurdistan are in Iranian custody, that country’s state-run television reported Saturday. The Arabic-language Al Alam station quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying the Americans, two men and a woman, were detained after they ignored warnings from border guards and crossed into Iran in a remote mountainous area about 55 miles northeast of the Kurdish town of Sulaymaniya.”
Look at this sick society, which Arash is proud to be a member of:
“However, 58% agree that “political speech should not be permitted to express harsh criticism of the state of Israel.†This is a significant increase as compared to 48% in 2003.”
And: “53% of the Jewish public supports encouraging Arabs to emigrate from Israel. 77% of immigrants support this idea, compared with 47% of the veteran public. 33% of veteran Jews are accepting of the inclusion of Arab parties in the government, by comparison with 23% of immigrants.”
The guy at the middle in the above picture. Is that Salman Rushdi?!
haha!! except salman can’t keep his eyes open to save his life. He has a condition whereby his eyes look permanently closed. how sad. he’ll never see those iranian agents coming at him i guess.
The name of Israel has become mud. Since the Gaza War, in which our army poured molten lead onto men, women and children, many Israelis avoid speaking Hebrew in foreign cities.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/A_Jeremiad.html
http://madreseyema.blogfa.com/post-308.aspx
This place is filled with extremisim. I am shocked to see the type of comment posted here. Wow.
Zendegi, how do you define extremism? Are you bothered that some people see hypocrisy in Israel’s policies rather than let it slide under the umbrella of “self-defense” and “national security”? Be specific. Just curious.
Mercenary “Christian” Crusaders in Iraq
According to an article in The Nation, the head of the mercenary company used by the United States in Iraq is accused by former Blackwater employees of being on a “Christian” crusade to kill as many Iraqis as he could:
The two men claim that the company’s owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life.”
More details here
http://www.iranaffairs.com/iran_affairs/
I don’t care about Israel or Zionist policies. I am refering to the comments about Ahmadinejad and how they are trying justifying this tyrant or other extremistist points of views such as having Rushdi killed. I see people openly support such acts of barbarisim and murdering free speech through threats. It just amazes me.
sorry for the spelling error: extremists