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...“It’s not unlikely that Raisi’s term becomes similar to Ahmadi-Nejad’s and Rouhani’s [chaotic last years],” said Mohammad Mohajeri, a conservative analyst. “The boat of politics in Iran rocks a lot.”...
...In 2009 he publicly opposed the controversial re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, which he said was the result of “extensive fraud” that rendered the poll “meaningless”....
...Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob, the defence minister, has publicly rebuked some of his fighters for poor discipline and engaging in revenge killings....
...The 2005 election of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad led to a further deterioration of relations with the west....
...There’s a new generation that doesn’t believe in us any more,” says Mohammad Ali Abtahi, a reformist former vice-president....
...In 2009, the Green Movement took to the streets to contest the re-election of another hardliner, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, and was suppressed....
...Iran’s programme June 2005 Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad becomes president after promising a return to the revolution’s ideals and an accelerated nuclear plan June 2009 Protests over the allegedly fraudulent...
...Reformists lost the presidential election to Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, and hardliners boasted of big nuclear and regional achievements....
...Mr Ahmadi-Nejad took power 13 years ago with the backing of Mr Khamenei and the regime’s hardline factions as they sought to counter reformers after Mohammad Khatami, a reformist, had completed two terms...
...The hardline populist Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, Mr Rouhani’s predecessor, had one female minister during his second term — the only woman to hold such a post since the 1979 Islamic revolution....
...“Today, I can say, is the end of this sedition,” Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Jafari was quoted as saying by a state-run news agency....
...Mohammad-Ali Najaf, a former education minister, replaces Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards who contested the presidency in 2005 and 2013....
...Imad Wasim looked ordinary, and you could debate Pakistan opening with a spinner — it’s England, it’s June, it’s raining. But Mohammad Amir did trouble the Indian batsman especially Rohit Sharma....
...from publishing statements by Mr Khatami since he threw his support behind mass demonstrations sparked by alleged vote-rigging in the 2009 presidential election, which returned the conservative Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad...
...But they say other backers of Tehran’s mayor will be worried that a victory for the cleric will risk a return to the belligerent foreign policies of former president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, which pushed Iran...
...Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s rule from 2005 to 2013 was tarnished by widespread allegations of corruption....
...Hardliners, for their part, are pushing the fourth candidate, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, to play a similar role....
...The experienced Mohammad Hafeez has been criticised of late for his slow play — so he started with a 4 to long off....
...Mohammad Khatami was the first “reformist” president to shake the system. But his two terms were followed by Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s disastrous presidency....
...And he has been quick to adopt a populist tone, not dissimilar to Mr Ahmadi-Nejad’s....
...“If Raisi becomes president, the country’s situation will be worse than under Ahmadi-Nejad. These people want war with the world,” she said....
...Angry supporters stayed at home in 2005, letting in the messianic hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, but then took to the streets in 2009 to confront what they saw as his rigged re-election, in a civic outcry...
...Mohammad-Amin Ghaneirad, a prominent sociologist, says Mr Rouhani must reach out beyond the middle-class to show he represents all Iranians....
...Hardliners — who have failed to come up with any concrete plans for the next government — were rattled by the nomination of Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a former hardline president who still enjoys popularity among...
...Analysts say Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Tehran’s mayor, who city resident’s credit for implementing major development projects in the capital, is one potential candidate being considered by the hardliners’...
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