Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki meets with former Iranian President in Baghdad
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, meets with Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 2, 2009. Rafsanjani is in Baghdad to begin talks with political and religious leaders. (UPI Photo/Iraqi Government Handout)
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U.S. President Barack Obama must not fall for claims of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani being a moderate
Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani is likely to take nuclear discussions “back to the past.”
This month, two major events in the Iranian political calendar will take place only a matter of days apart: Iran's presidential elections began Friday and the largest gathering of Iran's opposition movement is to take place in Paris just eight days later.
As millions of Iranians cast ballots in the country's presidential election, one candidate has been reaching out to reformists in recent days.
With the Revolutionary Guards poised to crash down on any political protests, Iran goes to the polls Friday in a presidential election in which the real winner will be the Islamic Republic's dour supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Iranian resistance is set to reiterate its demands for democratic change and a non-nuclear Iran in an upcoming grand gathering in Paris on June 22.
The upcoming elections in Iran may signal the start of a process that will replace the ruling clerics.
The Iranian regime's presidential election took dramatic turns last week when the Guardian Council disqualified former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
U.S. statements on the Iranian election process show a profound misunderstanding of the country's political system, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
The leading opposition-backed candidate in Iran's presidential election was not on the list of eight candidates allowed to run, the Interior Ministry said.
