Iran President-Elect Vows to Pursue Nukes

[Roland99]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-me/2005/jun/26/062606737.html

0625iran-vote Iran President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Sunday to pursue a peaceful nuclear program - an effort the United States maintains is really a cover for trying to build atomic bombs.

"Iran's peaceful technology is the outcome of the scientific achievements of Iran's youth," the ultraconservative Ahmadinejad told a press conference two days after being elected president.

"We need the peaceful nuclear technology for energy, medical and agricultural purposes and our scientific progress. We will continue this."

Is it me or is that headline a bit on the misleading side?

[pie]

1. The headline is an outright lie. Hate mongering at best.

[bemildred]

4. Yes. Expect lots more of it, too. nt

[Roland99]

8. Isn't the AP owned by the same parent company that owns ES&S?

[bemildred]

15. I dunno, I just expect this to cement their place in the axis of evil. nt

[Roland99]

16. Well, this is something about AP and ES&S...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/evoting/102304Landes/102304landes.html

Who is the AP? The Associated Press was founded in 1848. It is a not-for-profit news cooperative, some would say ‘monopoly,’ that rakes in about $500 million dollars a year. The AP is owned by its 1,500 U.S. daily newspaper members. Their board of directors is elected by voting ‘bonds.’ However, it is not clear who controls the bonds. AP spokespeople would not give out information on who sits on their board, however AP leadership appears quite conservative.

Burl Osborne, chairman of the AP board of directors, is also publisher emeritus of the conservative The Dallas Morning News, a newspaper that endorsed George W. Bush in the last election. Kathleen Carroll, senior vice president and executive editor of AP, was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News before joining AP. Carroll is also on the Associated Press Managing Editors (APME)’s 7-member executive committee. The APME "works in partnership with AP to improve the wire service's performance," according to their website. APME vice president, Deanna Sands, is managing editor of the ultra conservative Omaha World Herald newspaper, whose parent company owns the largest voting machine company in the nation, Election Systems and Software (ES&S).

[iconoclastic cat]

2. The headline is a bit on the propaganda-leading-to-war side.

Paging Mr. Corsi...

[mom cat]

5. Shame on you for enabling a kittyholic!

:spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank::spank:

[iconoclastic cat]

6. It's true. He's addicted to catahol.

[Vladimir]

3. Misleading is putting it mildly n/t

[maddezmom]

7. Ahmadinejad says Iran will go on with nuclear talks, does not need US

~snip~
This government will be a government of friendship and compassion. This government will be a government of justice and fairness, in the service of the people... whatever views they have."

But the 49-year-old mayor of Tehran said Iran does "not really need" to restore relations with the United States, which were broken off a quarter of a century ago after the Islamic revolution.

"Iran is on a path of progress and elevation, and does not really need the United States on this path," he said, but added: "We can work with any country in the world that does not show animosity to Iran."

Tehran and Washington cut off ties a quarter of a century ago, and a possible resumption of dialogue was floated by his defeated presidential rival, the moderate conservative Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

~snip~
more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050626/wl_mideast_afp/iranvote_050626152143;_ylt=AofwXyBMWdi5CAX1pLIEP7tSw60A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[SlowDownFast]

9. Iran President-Elect Vows to Restart Nukes

Iran President-Elect Vows to Restart Nukes

By KATHY GANNON
Associated Press Writer
June 26. 2005 2:55PM

Iran's ultraconservative president-elect, at once defiant and at ease, vowed Sunday to restart the nation's controversial nuclear program and warned European negotiators that building trust required a mutual effort.

Asked about relations with the United States during his first news conference since Friday's election, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran "is taking the path of progress based on self-reliance. It doesn't need the United States significantly on this path."

In a sign of tensions likely ahead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Ahmadinejad was "no friend of democracy" and dismissed the vote as a "mock election."

Ahmadinejad entered the crowded chambers in Iran's municipal building with little fanfare, maintaining the unassuming style embraced by the roughly 17 million Iranians who voted him to power in a landslide victory.

more:
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/API/506260740

[NMDemDist2]

10. peachy, just wonderful

:sarcasm:

and our Minister of War was all over TV today dissing the guy. Just great.

[Monkie]

11. is kathy gannon jeff gannons sister??

nowhere in the article except in the headline is there any talk of nukes

[IndianaGreen]

12. A nuclear energy program is NOT the same as a nuclear weapons program

Considering that Israel has openly threatened Iran with military aggression, something that Iran has never done, and that Israel has a significant stockpile of WMDs, no one can blame Iran if they were to break the deal with the Russians and develop nuclear weapons on their own.

What we got here is another misleading headline from the corporate press softening public opinion in favor of a US attack on Iran.

They lied to us about Iraq, and now the same cast of characters, the same neocons in America and Israel, are lying to us again!

[HawkerHurricane]

13. That's funny...

In a sign of tensions likely ahead, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Ahmadinejad was "no friend of democracy" and dismissed the vote as a "mock election."

In the above statement, change Ahmadinejad for Bush, and Rumsfeld for me, and it's accurate statement.

[Vladimir]

14. Its called a reactor,

you can tell it apart from a missile because one is about the size of a car, and the other about the size of a city block.

For fucks sake, could the media get a collective grip?

[baby_bear]

17. The reporter/writer typically does not write the headline of the article

But it appears that the AP headlined this since it was carried with the same headline in two newspapers.

That doesn't let the newspapers off the hook.

We should write to the papers as well as to AP. That headline was over the top.

b_b

[illflem]

Iran in No Need of US Ties

Ahmadinejad spells out his policies at the Tehran news conference. (Reuters)

TEHRAN, 27 June 2005 — President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday Iran would press ahead with its nuclear program and that the country had no real need for ties with archfoe, the United States.

In press statements yesterday, Ahmadinejad said he would maintain good relations with Arab states and reach out to all countries except Israel. “I will extend my hand to all... and I will strive to expand relations with everyone, with the exception of Israel,” he told Okaz newspaper.

Iran’s conservative press hailed Ahmadinejad as a man who could take on the United States and uphold the moral principles of the revolution. Reformists blamed themselves for failing to implement reforms under outgoing President Mohammad Khatami. The conservative Kayhan newspaper wrote Ahmadinejad’s win would scupper US attempts to flex its muscles in the Middle East under what it called a smokescreen of spreading democracy.

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=65979&d=27&m=6&y=2005

[Jara sang]

18. The board is set... the pieces are in motion...

[ismnotwasm]

19. This doesn't sound too good

God I hate those idiot warmongers in the white house.

[Doctor_J]

20. Maybe if Smirk provokes WWIII, recruting will pick up

Man, I gotta get someplace safe. Wish I spoke Swedish

[drduffy]

21. does anybody not know

why bush interfered in the iranian politics a while back. It was to have just the effect it did. Move the Iranians to the right. Makes em much easier to demonize don ya know.