Karroubi ‘recognizes’ Ahmadinejad…

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports (via www.payvand.com) that opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi recognizes Ahmadinejad as being the head of Iran’s government, although he is quick to maintain that the June presidential election was rigged. Karrubi’s new found stance could demonstrate a ploy to extract similar concessions from the ruling elite–sort of a quid pro quo.   […]

Hardline propaganda website misrepresents MP

With a bow to our friends at EA, who regularly post the “shocking news of the day.” From Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Facebook page: Torabi, member of the minority fraction of the Parliament (reformist) and the representative of people of Shahr-e-Kurd), in an interview said that a new website had been launched by the pro-Ahmadinejad hardliners […]