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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 01:26 PM
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Ahmadinejad Vows to Break Global Monopoly After Win Approved
Source: Bloomberg

By Ali Sheikholeslami and Ladane Nasseri

-- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he wants to interact with the world using an “approach of change” to “break the monopoly of global powers,” the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

“The nature of the Islamic Republic is to break the bipolar exclusivity of the world,” Ahmadinejad said in an address at the Intelligence Ministry in Tehran today, including the “influence of the military powers in political dealings.”

Iran’s relations with the West are continuing to worsen, complicating future talks over the country’s nuclear program. The Iranian leadership accuses the U.S. and the U.K. of instigating the violence that followed protests by Ahmadinejad’s opponents, who allege massive ballot-rigging in the June 12 presidential election.

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Ahmadinejad vowed on June 27 to take a tougher approach to the West during his second term, saying the U.S. administration’s criticism of his crackdown on dissent after the election shows its offer of talks on Iran’s nuclear program isn’t genuine.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVdBYw1rvU0k
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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 01:30 PM
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1. Hey Mahmoud...
Fuck off, tyrant.

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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 01:49 PM
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2. +1 n/t
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 01:54 PM
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3. Nicely said.
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Ohio Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 08:21 PM
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7. Well said - nt
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 04:57 AM
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10. He's not a tyrant, he's just the front man.
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sutz12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-02-09 12:22 AM
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16. Pretty much like Dubya was...
Seems like the tinfoil hatters babbling about secret cabals behind the scenes were not so far off the mark.

:shrug:
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-02-09 01:06 AM
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17. Yes, he's the Junior of Iran!
:)
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 02:07 PM
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4. If Iran's military powers didn't influence political dealings. He would not be President.
So maybe he should start with that particular initiative right there in his own backyard. Disband the Basij or be weighted with Hypocrisy!
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excess_3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 05:19 AM
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11. the other candidate was just as bad .n/t
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 07:38 AM
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12. Not really. Mousavi would be a much better President.
Mohammad Khatami would be the best Prime Minister. Iran's best hand for improving relations with the west and the international community. That would be Grand Ayatollah Montazeri as Supreme Leader. Mousavi as President, and Mohammad Khatami as Prime Minister. This would also be our best hand in developing a functional relationship with Iran. But it's up to the Iranian people to play that hand.
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Alamuti Lotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 09:35 PM
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14. What in Mousavi's past would suggest this?
Edited on Wed Jul-01-09 09:44 PM by Alamuti Lotus
First of all, he was Imam Khumayni(RA)'s handpicked politician to carry out his dirty work as Prime Minister during the war (I admire Khumayni(RA) greatly, but you cannot run a revolution with white gloves and Mousavi's were stained red). After continued terrorist attacks by the so-called "People's Mujihadeen", Tudeh, and other leftist militants backed by Iraq, Prime Minister Mousavi was tasked with quietly eliminating their cadres. Montazeri then broke with Mousavi and Khumayni(RA) over this fact and was promptly disavowed his successorship, replaced by Ayatallah al-Uzhma Ali Khamenei. Mousavi was removed around the time of Khumayni's death and replaced with the age of the corrupt billionare neoliberal Rafsanjani..
On another front, the Zionists had hoped that Mousavi would mean the end of the Islamic Republic patronage of the Palestinian resistance and Hizbu'llah -- as PM Mousavi helped organize the group to begin with, dispatching a fiery radical Ali Akhbar Mohtashemi (now a "reformer" supporting Khatami and Mousavi) as the conduit between the Revolutionary Guards, Syrian intelligence, and a nascent grouping of Islamic revolutionary militants in Lebanon fighting the zionist occupyers.

While Ahmadinejad has been talking about revolution (and to date, he has only words to his credit), fighting Israel and the United States, Mousavi and his "reformers" (farcical misnomer--if anything, they represent a more hardline return to Khumayni(RA)'s teachings) were actually acting on it. This is not something I personally hold against them, it's just so fucking surreal to see the storylines bandied about by born again experts and the fools who buy it all without thinking.
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JonQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 03:21 PM
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5. Sounding pretty confident there
must be getting close to producing nuclear weapons.
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Xolodno Donating Member (310 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-30-09 05:50 PM
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6. As one whose last name translates to "man of steel" once said...

"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 02:48 AM
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8. Yea, but mostly nothing will change either way
The west and now the east will continue to suck up to whoever controls the handles of the oil spigots.

Junkies are only strong when they are not missing their fix :shrug:
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rpannier Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 04:38 AM
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9. First
He's going to acquire Park Place and the Boardwalk

Shortly after that he'll go after the railroads and get the greens

Then St Charles Place and Illinois Ave
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-01-09 02:13 PM
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13. He Has a Man Date Now (Stolen, of Course) and Now He's Really Gonna Make a Mess of Thiings
Sounds like someone else we know?
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Lagomorph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-02-09 12:15 AM
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15. On the up side...
Ahmadinejad is doing more to sell the idea of clean energy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil than Al Gore, LOL!
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