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Frank Gallagher's List: Ahmadinejad

  • May 12, 09

    Excellent explanation of the infamous utterance

    www.atlantic-times.com/archive_detail.php ahmadinejad wipe off the map antizionism Israel

    • “in rezhim-e eshghalgar bayad az safhe-ye ruzgar mahv shaved,”

  • May 04, 09

    www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2005061801226_pf.html Ahmadinejad presidential election 2005 vote-rigging politcs

    • There were indications that hard-liners chose to mobilize for Ahmadinejad to avoid splintering the vote. Three days before the election, Khamenei's representative to the Revolutionary Guard urged loyalists to vote for the candidate with the least pretentious campaign.

      "They have mobilized their forces to vote for him," said Farzaneh Firozi, 38, after casting her ballot, for Moin, in Tehran. "Everyone at the polling station was talking about it. All the women with me, all the ones in chadors, were all voting for Ahmadinejad."

    • After the polls finally closed at 11 p.m. Friday, vote tallying was proceeding normally in the early hours of Saturday morning. For several hours, the totals reflected preelection polls and exit surveys. With a third of the votes in, Rafsanjani held a firm lead, and Moin was a solid second. But no vote totals were released to the public.

      At 5 a.m., Ahmadinejad began to surge ahead. Interior officials expressed quiet surprise, but a Guardian Council spokesman publicly announced the preliminary total.

      That sent President Khatami rushing to the Interior building. Before cameras, he upbraided the Guardian Council for butting in.

      At a news conference, Karrubi declared, "Some centers of power are violating the law and are trying to get more votes for a particular person with the help of the Guardian Council.

      Interior and Guardian Council officials also differed on turnout. While interior officials slowly moved their estimate toward 60 percent, a Guardian official claimed it approached 70 percent -- comparable to the turnout when Khatami was reelected four years ago.

  • May 04, 09

    www.payvand.com/...1048.html politics neocons ahmadinejad haghani

    • A list of possible cabinet members provided by the hard-line Daricheh website (http://www.daricheh.com; the site did not provide first names) on 2 July included at least two Haqqani alumni as prospective intelligence and security ministers. They are Special Court for the Clergy official Purmohammadi (first name not available) or Documents Center chief Hojatoleslam Ruhollah Husseinian, who has served in the Ministry of Intelligence and Security and the Special Court for the Clergy. 

    • The Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) on 6 July lists judiciary official Ebrahim Raisi as a possible intelligence and security minister, and press court judge Said Mortazavi as the justice minister. 

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  • May 04, 09

    www.americanthinker.com/...irans_new_president.html ahmadinejad

    • During the crackdown on universities in 1980, which Khomeini called the 'Islamic Cultural Revolution,' Ahmadinejad played a critical role in purging dissident lecturers and students
    • In the early 1980s, Ahmadinejad worked in the 'Internal Security' department of the IRGC

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  • May 04, 09

    www.usatoday.com/...006-03-09-iran-president_x.htm ahmadinejad politics neocon

    • shopkeeper's son
    • has been impossible to ignore. Ahmadinejad has sought to boost his stature by igniting Iranian nationalism over the country's nuclear program. He has broadened his appeal with a populist agenda built on government spending for the poor and a crusade against corruption. He has tightened his hand inside the government and diplomatic corps by replacing hundreds of bureaucrats with his loyalists.

      • Takeover of the state machinary.

        Conflict with who? SIC networks? Rafa cronies?

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