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Monday
Jun152009

Video: Ahmadinejad Looks Past Demonstrations (and Mousavi's Safety) "Toward the Future"

The Latest from Iran: Demonstrations and An Appeal to the Guardian Council (15 June)

On Saturday, even as crowds were marching on the streets of Tehran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared on national television to claim his victory in an election "at a great juncture in history".

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRjexuNDXrk[/youtube]

Ahmadinejad's future showed up again yesterday, in his first news conference since the election. Asked by CNN's Christiane Amanpour about the treatment of demonstrators by security forces and about a "guarantee" for the safety of challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi. he quickly set out the present so he could turn his eyes to months and years beyond: "A new era has been ushered in for the Iranian people" through this election, "a look toward the future and high aspirations". Those alleged protests? "The situation in Iran is in a very good condition and people had been arrested because they had acted against laws".

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRlf9XkMtw[/youtube]

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