What to make of Rafsanjanis disqualification

By ALIREZA JAFARZADEH, UPI Outside View Commentator

WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- The Iranian regimes presidential election, which is scheduled for June 14, took several dramatic turns last week when the Guardian Council disqualified former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had surprised everyone by standing in for the elections.

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The Perils Of Religious Persecution In Iran

by Doug Bandow
Posted on Forbes on May 13, 2013

The Islamic Republic of Iran often is in the news, and usually for all the wrong reasons.  Tehran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons, though U.S. intelligence agencies see no evidence of an active nuclear weapons program.  Iran also has a deteriorating human rights record.

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Iran unleashed, unbowed

by Jennifer Rubin
Posted on Washingtonpost on April 23, 2013

One of the Obama administration talking points is that it has weakened and isolated the Iranian regime. Aside from the economic beating Iran has taken, there really isn’t any evidence that has come about.

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Iran Can't Agree to a Damn Thing

By Patrick Clawson
Posted on The Washington Institute on Feb 20, 2013

During the chaotic days of Iran's Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the country's emerging "supreme leader," assured Iranians that their supposed oppressor, the United States, would not be able to put the hated shah back on his throne. "America can't do a damn thing against us," he inveighed, a winning line that became the uprising's unofficial slogan. It's a catchphrase Iran has deployed time and again since, most recently in a taunting billboard along the Iran-Iraq border and in a banner hung in front of a captured American drone (though hilariously, in the latter case, the hapless banner-makers mistranslated the phrase as "America Can Do No Wrong").

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At Voice of America, Complaints About Its Iranian Coverage

By Sohrab Ahmari
Posted on The Wall Street Journal on Jan 06, 2013

Seyed Hossein Mousavian, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator, said in a television interview aired recently in the Islamic Republic that the country "is in full compliance" with the International Atomic Energy Agency nuclear-safeguards agreement, and that there is "no evidence" the regime is diverting nuclear material for military purposes.

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