Khurshid, Ahmadinejad in Tehran
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad meet in the Kremlin in Moscow.
Outgoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, shakes hands with President elect Hasan Rowhani, during a meeting at Rowhani's office, in Tehran, Iran. Rowhani has vowed for ...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid during a meeting in Tehran.
Shalamcheh missiles are displayed by the Iranian army, as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left, reviews a military parade marking National Army Day, in front of the mausoleum...
Defying a threat of sanctions, Pakistan and Iran inaugurate work for a 780-km section of a gas pipeline. This much-delayed section, in Pak, to cost $1.5 bn of which Iran will dole ...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comforts Elena Frias next to the flag-draped coffin of her son, Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez, during the funeral ceremony at the mili...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, attends a press conference with Egyptian Sunni clerics at Al-Azhar headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's most prominent Muslim cleric,...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures as he attends the high level meeting on rule of law in the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters.
Manmohan Singh, seen with Ahmadinejad, is welcomed in Tehran on August 29
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks as he welcomes Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for their meeting, in Tehran, Iran.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak during their meeting in Beijing. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Beijing for a...
In this Sunday, March 2, 2008, file photo, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reacts during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq. Iran has played many political roles in Baghdad ...
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second right, shakes hands with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at the presidency office in Tehran, Iran, at the beginning of his two-day offici...
Identification document of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is placed on a polling station table, during the parliamentary elections in downtown Tehran, Iran. The ballotin...
President Mohd Ahmadinejad, second from left, examines Iran’s first domestically produced nuclear fuel rod, Tehran, Feb 15
Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, center, holds the hands of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after their joint news conference a...
A man walks past pictures of, from left, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Pakistan's President...
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, second left being escorted by technicians during a tour of Tehran's research reactor centre in northern Tehran, Iran. In defiant swipes at it...
Slavoj Žižek in the LRB:
There are many versions of last month’s events in Tehran. Some see in the protests the culmination of the pro-Western ‘reform movement’, something along the lines of the colour-coded revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia. They support the protests as a secular reaction to the Khomeini revolution, as the first step towards a new liberal-democratic Iran freed from Muslim fundamentalism. They are countered by sceptics who think that Ahmadinejad actually won, that he is the voice of the majority, while Mousavi’s support comes from the middle classes and their gilded youth. Let’s face facts, they say: in Ahmadinejad, Iran has the president it deserves. Then there are those who dismiss Mousavi as a member of the clerical establishment whose differences from Ahmadinejad are merely cosmetic. He too wants to continue with the atomic energy programme, is against recognising Israel, and when he was prime minister in the repressive years of the war with Iraq enjoyed the full support of Khomeini.
Finally, and saddest of all, are the leftist supporters of Ahmadinejad.
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Elections, charges of rigging, protest rallies, firing, and a brutal crackdown, press clampdown and new tech to the rescue.
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Post Script: More disturbing videos coming out of Iran:
An e-mail joke circulating among Iranians: "The Election Commission has announced in its last statement regarding the election that writing names such as monkey, traitor, fascist, silly, and [expletive] on the ballots will be considered a vote for Ahmadinejad."
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