American/Iranian Hooman Majd is a busy traveler between East and West, apparently highly treasured in both realms. He is a prolific and, admittedly, most talented author/journalist/writer (probably sort of ‘journalism’ being only one of his many talents) who has been writing, as his home page tells us, for instance for Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mohammad Khatami’
No Democracy
Posted in Book Review, Iran, Islam, tagged ant-Semitism, Ashura, Baha'i, democracy, dictatorship, Green Movement, Hooman Majd, Jews, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami, Najasat-e Ahl-e Kitab, presidiential election, Revolutionary Guards, Shi'a Islam, Ta'arouf, velayat-e faqih on October 13, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Not Before 2013 – Ever?
Posted in Iran, NPT, tagged axis of evil, breakout capability, David Albright, Dennis Blair, Federation of American Scientists, Freedom of Information Act, G. W. Bush, HEU, ISIS, Jacqueline Shire, LEU, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami, NIE on August 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In his updated testimony to Congress Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has now further shifted a possible date as to when Iran may have achieved capabilities of producing highly enriched uranium (HEU) to “not before 2013” (from “between 2010 and 2015” claimed in February last year). “While Iran made significant progress since 2007 in [...]
Legitimacy Charade
Posted in Iran, tagged Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Friday prayers, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Khatami on July 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election was legitimate since it had been confirmed by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution. This message was spread today by Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami, interim leader of the Friday prayers at Tehran University in an outrageous criticism of former president Mohammad Khatami who had called for a referendum on the legitimacy [...]
Expected Withdrawal
Posted in Iran, tagged Ali Khamenei, election campaign, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mehdi Karroubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohammad Khatami on March 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Five weeks after having announced running for another presidency after 1997-2005, the former ‘reformist’ president of the Islamic Republic Mohammad Khatami yesterday left the campaign. He might in fact endorse another moderate candidate, Iran’s last prime minister (1980-1988) Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who announced last week his bid to run. Another candidate, Mehdi Karroubi, could still significantly [...]
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