Mahmoud Ahmedinejad

By Alan Fisher in Europe on February 7th, 2010
Afghanistan and the role of Nato was scheduled to be today’s big discussion at the Munich Security Conference.  The big hitters were here, Nato's secretary general, the Afghan president, but instead there's one thing everyone is still talking about.  And that's Iran.
 
The foreign minister left here saying the future was bright, the future was international co-operation.  But first thing on Sunday, back in Tehran, the Iranian president, not for the first time, muddied the waters.  Mahmoud Ahmedinejad has ordered his nuclear scientists to step up the uranium enrichment programme.  It's not what the Western powers wanted to hear.
 
By Hamish Macdonald in Europe on June 12th, 2009

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As the voting gets extended beyond the planned cut off time in Iran’s Presidential election, it is worth noting the campaign slogan adopted by supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the ‘reformist’ candidate who appears to be seriously challenging the incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

“Death to Potatoes” is the chant ringing out at Mousavi’s rallies in the final days of campaigning, a critical reference to tactics employed by Ahmedinejad’s campaign whereby the country’s surplus potato stock has been given away at greatly reduced prices to the rural poor. Critics think it is a blatent attempt to buy votes.

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