“Another four years of dictatorship”For those who dreamed of a gentler Iran, Saturday was a day of smouldering anger, crushed hopes and punctured illusions, from the streets of Tehran to the policy centres of Western capitals, says Bill Keller.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Angst on the streets of Tehran: Robert Fisk
Protesters took to the streets: were they to endure another four years of the smiling, avuncular, ever-so-humble President who swears by democracy while steadily thinning out human freedoms in the Islamic Republic?
Iran’s Presidential race: meet the candidates
As Iran goes to the ballot box, meet the four people who might be Iran’s next leader, and what the press are saying about them.
The election Ahmadinejad couldn’t lose turns on its head
How could the Israel-hating, US-bashing, nuclear weapon-chasing President lose when he was backed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Martin Fletcher remarks on Iran’s growing moderate movement.
The wayward widsom of Iran’s President
Since he became Iran’s president in 2005, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has antagonised with his bellicose stance on Israel and nuclear programs. The First Post has his collected sayings.
Obama can undo the damage Bush did to US-Iran relationship
Iranians have a chance to vote against the confrontational path of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The US can help them make that choice, says Shahram Akbarzadeh.
Ahmadinejad misses his own rally
Tens of thousands of Ahmadinejad’s supporters showed up to one of his rallies being held in the lead-up to next Iranian presidential election. Too bad he didn’t.
Iran says no to nuclear freeze
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has rejected a proposal for it to “freeze” its nuclear program and is refusing to negotiate with world powers on the issue.
Iran’s potatoes-for-votes scandal
Opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are accusing him of buying off voters with free potatoes.
Ahmadinijad and the politics of genocide
Israel seems to be particularly ill-served by its Australian fan base, if the AIJAC contributions to Crikey are anything to go by, writes Guy Rundle.
Why even invite Ahmadinejad to a conference on racism?
Were the UN really surprised when Ahmadinejad used their conference to accuse Israel of racism? Accusing Israel of being racist is what Ahmadinejad does, argues Will Self.
Carlill vs Rundle: Ahmadinejad, Palestine and Israel
What’s really preventing the establishment of a viable Palestinian state is a mixture of rejectionism, corruption and incompetence, writes Bren Carlill.
Mixed signals: Iran and the USA
The US offers Iran an olive branch and Iran jails an American journalist… where is this relationship going?
Guy Rundle: Walking out on Ahmadinejad highlights West’s hypocrisy
Ahmedinijad’s analysis is spot on. Europeans did kill the Jews.
Iran and the bomb: no known unknowns?
There’s no downside to the news that Iran is nowhere near getting the bomb, right? Try telling that to the Bush administration.
Neo-con Ledeen praises Howard as “arguably the greatest Western leader of the past decade”
Michael Ledeen is a key figure in the neo-con firmament, a man whose ideas about the Arab world have been thoroughly proven false time and time again. It therefore makes sense that Australia’s leading Zionist lobby, AIJAC, has invited him here on a speaking tour, writes Antony Loewenstein.
I didn’t know David Irving read Crikey
Having been with Crikey since day one, it’s distressing to discover the freaks, fanatics and fringe dwellers that are reading us nowadays – the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fan club, laments Christian Kerr.
Rudd’s goes neo-con on Iran
When it comes to American military adventures, John Howard is the Macbeth of Australian politics, but what about Kevin Rudd?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Times are tough in the International Dictators’ Club. Business, as they say, just ain’t what it used to be.
War talk on Iran shows failure to learn from Iraq
The long-running controversy over Iran’s nuclear program flared up again this week. Superficially, it looks as if there’s no reason for conflict on the issue so a resort to war should never appear on the agenda, writes Charles Richardson.
