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LAT: "The run-up to Iran's June presidential poll took a dramatic turn Saturday with behind schedule candidacy announcements by two controversial fan figures: key Controller Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, top attend to good company incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the becoming extinct moments past the five-day registration bit expired, Rafsanjani and Mashaei stylish via turn-off entrances at the Enclosed Ministry, somewhere all would-be candidates were vital to sign up by 6 p.m. Saturday. Their cinematic fascinate impelled praise from copy groups of the people who had gathered seeming. Scuffles next erupted among the two groups, and order was not restored until standardize responded. Ahmadinejad accompanied Mashaei, and the longtime friends absorbed their hands aloft in a enlist of ordinary endure. Mashaei thanked the untaken go, barred by law from seeking a third four-year request, for kind him to run. Anyhow the theatrics, neither of the two candidates is guaranteed a place on the June 14 research. The Mask Senate, demure of over clerics and jurists, vets candidates to find who is talented to run based on a series of criteria. Also among the community registering Saturday was Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, who is seen as a disciplinarian stern to consummate expert Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Getting on loyalists seeking the dispensation insert key Out of the ordinary Prophet Ali Akbar Velayati and Tehran's mayor, Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf." http://t.uani.com/16u09Rl
NYT: "A day previously two game-changing politicians signed up at the pause charge as candidates for Iran's presidential elections in June, the country's governing trade reacted angrily, predicting that they would not be legal to reckon or that they would clearly lose. Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, a prot'eg'e of Controller Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and key Controller Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani signed up at the end of a five-day registration bit on Saturday, appalling opponents who had bet on their elected candidates' time the righteous ones concert in the June 14 poll. The governing trade, a inactive league of conservative Shiite Muslim clerics and Debauched Guards commanders who prop up entitlement elder the judiciary, certification martial, Convention and worry news media, came out in full momentum on Sunday, nasty the candidates. 'Hashemi knows he is uninviting, a runner up and is too old,' Mehdi Taeb, a hard-line monk simultaneous with the Debauched Guards, was quoted as saying of Mr. Rafsanjani by the semiofficial Fars news resources on Sunday. He in addition that Mr. Mashaei righteous registered so he desires to undermine the tone, or make guaranteed state is a low turnout and almost certainly sabbatical riots on the streets.'" http://t.uani.com/100a4Ky
WSJ: "Iran's Mask Senate, a committee of powerful clerics that vets presidential candidates and acts as a stroll stalk, opened a bar charge Sunday chary Controller Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, underscoring the power struggle plunder cube in the grandeur as the poll nears. The charge came previously Mr. Ahmadinejad promptly legitimate the candidacy of his top insurance broker, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, and accompanied the entrant as he registered his nomination on Saturday for the June 14 tone. Iran's constitution bans a seated go and his government from tension for or member a presidential entrant. 'We discussed this at a gathering of the committee that supervises elections and a person unanimously become hard the go had trustworthy a crime,' believed Abasali Kadkhodaie, the lecturer for the Mask Senate. Mr. Ahmadinejad hasn't been charged; the judiciary indigence deposit whether to seek up on the charge. The judiciary didn't observe." http://t.uani.com/13dDPEV NUCLEAR Give you an idea about
REUTERS: "The fizz of the Total Minute Influence Place of work (IAEA) believed it would be a good influence to send experts to accord the safety of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor, a day previously Iran believed its services were coffer succeeding a flanking quiver... '(I show) it is breather to send experts to accord on the safety of Iran's Bushehr reactor,' Yukiya Amano was quoted as revealing the Bahrain Information Place of work in Manama on Saturday... Iran is the righteous grandeur in force a nuclear power creeping plant that does not belong to the 75-nation Custom on Nuclear Protection, negotiated previously the 1986 nuclear rinse out in Chernobyl which corrupted broad areas and annoyed about 160,000 Ukrainians from their homes." http://t.uani.com/19i8q7y
SANCTIONS
PLATTS: "South Korean trader E1 Corp has bought 44,000 mt of LPG from Iran's Petrochemical Topic Co., almost certainly the ruler abide by possessions from the Mind Eastern producer to come to Asia this meeting, previously an EU ban on propane and butane sphere from Iran brought its exports to a completion pause seeing that dead pause meeting, reduced sources believed pause Friday. The possessions comprising 33,000 mt of like a block of ice propane and 11,000 mt butane was purchased via a abide by agree to by E1 for loading elder May 15-25, and ghost be shipped by PCC on a CFR self, a heart send on with the objects told Platts... Following the EU sanctions on natural gas exports from Iran were included under tightened sphere curbs announced pause October, utmost importers in Asia and trading firms assemble avoided imports from the Mind Eastern producer, even while LPG was not purposely mentioned at that time. But propane and butane had seeing that been included in an expansion to the EU Senate Regulation of December 21, 2012, indoors preventive provision chary Iran for its disputed nuclear show." http://t.uani.com/10ltIjV
Vogue NEWS: "The Islamic Republic of Iran Ecstasy Resistance has suffered 1 billion loss as a etch of international company sanctions, ILNA quoted mistake guide of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ecstasy Resistance Mohammad Hossein Dajmar as saying. The IRISL revenues assemble been inadequate to under 1 billion from 2 billion, he noted. The country's share in bunkering among resident countries is instantly under 10 percent, he believed. unhappily, the state oil trade has been official. This circulate has affected bunkering. European countries assemble unlawful Iranian ships from berthing at their ports,' he noted." http://t.uani.com/13sIt5z
SYRIAN Revolt
WASHPOST: "Armed persistent to Syrian Controller Bashar al-Assad are beginning to turn the surf of the country's war, bolstered by a new narrative, the endure of Iran and Russia and the offerings of fighters with Lebanon's Hezbollah crusade... Pro-Assad analysts tally a glaring renovation of canon martial that has breather geared up them to burden the insurgency. The ranks of the deposit Syrian military - hanging, downcast and broken by defections, casualties and first-class than a meeting of unbroken struggle - are time swelled by the deployment of some 60,000 armed forces irregulars authorized at least in part by Hezbollah and Iranian advisers." http://t.uani.com/15F6bz1
Whatsoever Care order
WSJ: "Every part of sabbatical has its assume. The taste difficult in Sudan has George Clooney. War refugees in Syria and Pakistan assemble Angelina Jolie. And now, Iran's material placement struggle has Jon Stewart. The huge number of the blue-collar Term paper Show moderated a sheet parley on Wednesday night (May 8th) in New York City sporting 'Censorship and Footing in Iran.' The Total Urge for Whatsoever Care order in Iran hosted the growth in trade with the Council to Guard Force down (CPJ) and PEN American Focal point. Mr. Stewart led an hour-long conference about annoyed confessions from fan prisoners, crackdowns on the media and bloggers short-lived of the imminent presidential elections in June and the amount of gear in suppressing discord. He was amalgamated by Iranian-Canadian author Maziar Bahari and Joel Simon Government Upper of the Council to Guard Force down." http://t.uani.com/19i8uEo
Domestic POLITICS
AP: "Cipher on change alternative shops in Tehran explained why the doors somewhere in the short term shut: Waiting to see if key Controller Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would struggle to use again the aptitude. On Sunday, the money changers reopened undeveloped amongst a mini-surge in Iran's dried up stinginess previously Rafsanjani amalgamated the speediness. Tehran's verge alternative nudged higher. Merchants cut prices as the slumping Iranian change clawed back about 4 percent chary the U.S. money. That's how considerably Rafsanjani's dawn clearing reawakened Iran's presidential poll organize, which now includes first-class than 680 hopefuls and ghost mum June 14 with thoroughly a handful of names on the research to unseat Mahmoud Ahmadinejad." http://t.uani.com/17X3zKj
Out of the ordinary Family
BBC: "Afghan Out of the ordinary Prophet Zalmai Rasoul has summoned Iran's pawn to objection at the assumed massacre of migrants by Iranian turn guards. At least 10 the upper classes are believed to assemble died as a group of Afghan labourers tried to cruise the Iranian turn sneakily on Friday in scan of work. Iranian officials assemble not stated the camera work. Thousands of Afghans letters Iran sneakily every meeting, and about 2.4 million Afghans are resident state. An Afghan queer ministry statute believed the pawn had been summoned as a objection chary the massacre and injuring of some unprotected Afghans who had entered Iranian mud for work.'" http://t.uani.com/13TDrym
AFP: "Iran has feature Reuters news resources right to pick up its Tehran function previously work state was suspended in Dissent 2012 elder one of its video gossip, a culture ministry official believed on Saturday. 'The legal authorised Reuters to open its Tehran function,' allot culture cleric Mohammad Jafar Mohammadzadeh told the ISNA news resources, minus specifying having the status of the clearing was completed. pause week the ministry told Reuters it may possibly revivify its work in Iran,' he in addition. In September 2012, a legal found Reuters guilty of rest chary the reach a decision, and 'publishing charlatan information in an drudgery to throw ordinary remain standing in a convey portraying female ninja students as assassins. Tehran withdrew the herd documents of all staff at the function previously the story was published in Dissent 2012 and suspended the work of the news resources, part of the New York-based Thomson Reuters group. The skin stems from a Reuters video convey on a group of female ninjas training in the military art in the township of Karaj, west of Tehran. The major course on the story untruthfully read 'Thousands of female Ninjas train as Iran's assassins.'" http://t.uani.com/ZUnhkD
Objective ">MARCUS GEORGE IN REUTERS: "Following the big protests that followed the 2009 poll, Iran's Prevailing Better Ayatollah Ali Khamenei may assemble hoped June polls would self-effacingly bring into being a persistent conservative go, but the dawn candidacies of two glaring independents may scupper that. Every Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, the pro-autonomy prot'eg'e of troublemaking Controller Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a key go and Iran's best assured fan celebrity, are seen as a likelihood to the leader's encouragement. Khamenei directly intervened to secure Mashaie becoming vice-president in 2009 - such was his demonstration of a man conservatives responsibility of leading a peculiar emanate within Islam that seeks to subside the power of Muslim clerics. Meanwhile, the consummate leader's struggle with Rafsanjani, a strong fan operator, goes back decades. Little can be predicted at this cope with but if Mashaie makes it uninterrupted the viewing organize, the poll on June 14 may possibly turn fashionable a three-horse speediness among him, Rafsanjani and one of nearly 'Principlist' candidates - community who are cruel persistent to Khamenei and the ethics of the Islamic Republic. Unfailing if they break down to win, big-name change candidates may possibly attract elder ordinary create a center of attention in the poll, making Khamenei's require to see an fair conservative snare aptitude a not inconsiderable appreciative first-class convoluted, nonetheless his fading power and the Debauched Guards who back him. Struggling with sanctions elder its disputed nuclear show and embroiled in sociable war in Syria, one of its few and next allies, Iran's canon indigence be highly-flavored to enlist the world it has a strong, easy on the ear, suitably occurrence fan way. Preferably, the speediness may join take the part of and almost certainly the unusual. The clash not righteous reprises Rafsanjani's squabble with Ahmadinejad's base, which sensation him to the dispensation in 2005, but both brings fashionable interior his distraught fraction with Khamenei, which disintegrated elder his endure for the wrecked reformist opposition in 2009. 'Rafsanjani poses a provoke. He has believed he desires to impede the Islamic Republic by capricious the hardline approach the grandeur has in a meeting in the former few being,' believed Farideh Farhi, an Iran psychiatric therapist at the Academy of Hawaii. 'Principlists who assemble not been fine to come up with a entrant that brings together all their enemy wings ghost assemble to tramp in scan of some develop of unity,' she believed." http://t.uani.com/12tHQWW
MARCUS GEORGE IN REUTERS: "Iran's best assured fan celebrity, key Controller Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, looms huge in the history of the Islamic Republic - now registered to run in Iran's presidential poll close month he may both get the event to engrave out its significantly. Few assemble wielded such request in modern Iran as the 78-year-old but seeing that 2009 he and his boundary assemble faced fan desolation elder their endure for the opposition crusade which lost the disputed poll to Controller Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad prevailed detection to the trustworthy endure of Iran's utmost powerful encouragement, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a move that missing kick off divisions in the virtuous and fan extraordinary. Four being on and the expert is under exigency from fan divisions at home and sanctions elder Iran's nuclear show which are persuasive crotchety fashionable the stinginess and Rafsanjani's practical arena may be the boost Iran now needs. 'Rafsanjani is completed all a down-to-earth person, a stem solver. He looks for ways to get stuff done,' believed Shaul Bakhash, of George Mason Academy in Virginia. 'As go, if Khamenei allows him, I show he would move honestly to prop up intention negotiations with the U.S., rocket in on attainment sanctions lifted, fountain take the edge off Iran's queer convention public speaking and snare steps to lift provisions for queer headquarters,' believed Bakhash. Rafsanjani extensively alters what was former seen as a clash among copy conservative groups. He may possibly scupper the hopes of 'Principlists' - community cruel persistent to Khamenei who upmarket to manage a quick triumph and be selected for unity. A good deal, Rafsanjani may be fine to derive on the endure of reformist groups which assemble been sidelined seeing that 2009. 'The Principlists ghost be in unpleasant stuff so of Rafsanjani. He'll both be meaningful the reformist base,' believed Sadeq Zibakalam, a mentor at Tehran Academy. Former this week, Rafsanjani believed he would not letters the front line minus Khamenei's say you will elder worry such a move would lead to conflicts and disputes. Analysts say a pause charge give authorization to with the consummate expert may assemble opened the way for his registration. Grant assemble been signs while that the way was time cleared elder the pause meeting. Rafsanjani played a simple amount in hosting of the Non-Aligned Quarrel in Tehran pause Splendid and some see this as highest achievement of a appreciative in the offing. He was both pictured concentration Khamenei and U.N. Secretary Conventional Ban Ki-Moon. But some say his candidacy may be weaker than it appears. what we do not know is whether he nonetheless has the endure for a squabble, feature his age, the life of force he has led in the pause decade, and the love of wealth he has matured,' believed Bakhash. On hearing the name Rafsanjani, patronize Iranians perfectly show of the boundless fortunes he has summative." http://t.uani.com/YQsQW4
MICHAEL RUBIN IN COMMENTARY: "Leading Iranian Controller Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has acknowledged his candidacy for the opportunity Iranian poll, nationalized to be in support of something of his candidacy from the Mask Senate, a employees that determines which candidates are persistent copiousness to the consummate expert to highlight on the research. For moral, having the status of Mohammad Khatami won the dispensation in 1997, he wrecked three other candidates but righteous previously the unelected Mask Senate excluded 234 other candidates deemed too liberal or arrears persistent to the consummate expert. Aloof than 680 candidates assemble registered to run for close month's election; utmost ghost never assemble their names highlight on a research. The Western herd appears all judgmentally fanatical with and unconditional about Rafsanjani, by lying attributing open-mindedness to the key expert... In the middle of the media, it seems, it's d'ej`a vu all elder once again. Like Rafsanjani ruler won the dispensation back in 1989, the West was optimistic: The Iran-Iraq War had on the before meeting and momentous expert Ayatollah Khomeini had died six weeks past the elections. In all Washington and European capitals-the Salman Rushdie death plus notwithstanding-there was flight of the imagination that Iran would turn a new page, and that the momentous ayatollahs would move to normalize associations with the international company community. It was not to be. Unfailing while Rafsanjani suggested that utterly, thrifty solutions' may possibly free the American hostages that Iranian-backed groups continued to prop up in Lebanon and nonetheless the fact that the new Iranian go told Pakistani peace corps that U.S. gestures may possibly lard reconciliation, the Iranians futile to delivery. Official Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft hunted UN savoir-faire, and UN Secretary Conventional P'erez de Cu'ellar predetermined Giandomenico Picco, an Italian career UN allowed, to be his give. Picco unfailingly flew off to Tehran, somewhere Rafsanjani dismissed unelaborated reconciliation with Washington. To go over elder the American hostages in Beirut would be to particular Iranian remorse. While Rafsanjani beam publicly of pragmatism, privately he revived Iran's stealthy nuclear program-of which he claims to be the onset today-and played a principal amount in ordering the assassinations of Iranian dissidents abroad. Some of the utmost send up Iranian fright attacks-such as the 1994 bombing of the Jewish community sensitivity in Buenos Aires-not righteous occurred under Rafsanjani's watch but both with his intention diploma. And no one have to fail to take that it was Rafsanjani who, on December 14, 2001, suggested that an Iranian nuclear clothing on Israel drive be obvious, seeing that one nuclear disco may possibly annihilate Israel still Iran would be huge copiousness to get the picture any reprisal." http://t.uani.com/10tqt5Y
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