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Opinion: Egypt's Challenge to Iran
By not in system - AOL NewsAlmost as soon as protests in Egypt erupted, Iran tried to use the unrest to step up anti-American propaganda and project power in the region. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, said Friday that the popular uprisings against Western-backed regimes in the Middle East signified an "Islamic awakening" that will lead to an "irreversible defeat" of the United States. Khamenei also addressed the Egyptian people in Arabic to voice solidarity with them. Iranian leaders portray the protests as a natural extension of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. "After the victory of the Iranian ...
Iran's Former President Calls for Protesters' Release
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyTens of thousands gathered around Iran's Tehran University as former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani called on the government to release the protesters arrested since Iran's disputed presidential election in June.CNN reports Rafsanjani said: "Let the enemy not laugh at us and criticize us. We must sympathize with those who have suffered damages. The system cannot lose them. If the system reapproaches them they will come back to us." As Rafsanjani spoke as part of a Friday prayer service, police were aiming tear gas at protesters outside. Rafsanjani is not the first influential political ...
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Popularity Problem
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyMahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided who is to blame for the unrest in Iran. Is it the officials who rigged the election totals so that many cities had voter turnouts of over 100 percent? The militia members who attacked the protesters in the streets? Himself? No, Ahmadinejad has decided the fault lies with Barack Obama. ...
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