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  • From: Lee Haslup <biglee AT haslups.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Iran Endorsement?
  • Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:51:43 -0400

The Agence France-Presse news service has a slightly different story on this. It includes a few more words from the statement by Rowhani. This version suggests that he was merely trying to make a neutral statement and that any criticism of the Democrats was part of a balanced critique of both parties.

TEHRAN, Oct 19 (AFP) - It makes no real difference to Iran
whether US President George W. Bush or Democrat contender John
Kerry wins the presidential elections, a senior Iranian official
said Tuesday.

“*It makes no difference for us which of the two parties wins
the elections*,” Iran’s top national security official Hassan
Rowhani said in an interview on state television.

“We have not seen any good coming from the Democrats, so we
won’t be happy if the Democrats win,” he said.


Paul Smith wrote:

Evan Zimmerman wrote:

I'm not much for Tehran meddling in American politics, but I have to
admit with all of the 'terrorists support John Kerry' type rhetoric
going around, the irony is rich:

"The head of Iran's security council said Tuesday that the re-election
of President Bush was in Tehran's best interests, despite the
administration's axis of evil label, accusations that Iran harbors
al-Qaida terrorists and threats of sanctions over the country's
nuclear ambitions."
"We do not desire to see Democrats take over."



Right, well, I think that's really just a function of the fact that they don't like us very much. :) That, and Iran has had much better experiences having their way with men like Bob McFarlane, Caspar Weinberger and John Poindexter than they have arguing over embargoes and human rights with people like Madeleine Albright.

--P









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