Winner in Iran Calls for Unity; Reformists Reel

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Winner in Iran Calls for Unity; Reformists Reel

BY MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 26, 2005

TEHRAN, June 25 - Iran's newly elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Saturday that he wanted to create a strong Islamic nation and issued a call for unity in his first comments after a landslide victory that left the country's reformist movement virtually powerless and threatened to further complicate relations with the United States.

In an address on state radio, Mr. Ahmadinejad, a religious conservative, said he would work toward building "an Islamic, exemplary, advanced and powerful nation," and urged Iranians to "forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/international/middleeast/26iran.html?

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1. And while we're all being so friendly...

...put that burkha on!!

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2. Juan Cole says that Ahmadinejad won by using Bush's (or Rove's) tactics:

Newly elected Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad won in some part by using the same electoral tools as George W. Bush and Karl Rove.

1. Smear Tactics
2. False Consciousness
3. Posing as a Critic of the Government You Run
4. Benefitting from Dominance of the Judiciary
5. Religious Congregations and the Military

Very interesting analysis:
http://www.juancole.com/2005/06/ahmadinejad-uses-bushs-tactics-supreme.html