Ahmadinejad rings the changes
asia times / Kaveh Afrasiabi
20-Jul-2009 (2 comments)

President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's second term is likely to feature a more moderate swing of policies than witnessed during the previous four years. A factor that will impact considerably on the calculations of the United States, other Western governments and Israel as they gear up to increase pressure on Tehran over its nuclear program...The president's crisis-management methods, and speeches and appointments since have shown that moderation will likely define his second term.

Talk of a complete cabinet make-over, made through appointing new ministers based on "expertise and merits" is buzzing through the nation's capital. Ahmadinejad has also unveiled a new "national service plan" for recruiting technocrats that is bound to appease some of his reformist critics if implemented as planned.  Already, the appointment of a new head for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from 2003 to 2004 - when Iran made important "confidence-building" concessions to the IAEA - has been widely interpreted in the West as indicative of a new willingness on the part of Ahmadinejad to pursue a more conciliatory path in nuclear negotiations....Another sign that Ahmadinejad is determined to instill a... >>>

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by rosie is roxy is roshan on Mon Jul 20, 2009 01:16 PM PDT

Okay, I know, you hate his guts, apolgist supremo, and it irritates you that I keep posting him, and that Asia Times features him so prominently, let alone at all. But here's the thing. Okay, I'll address the main points I chose briefly: crisis management horrific and Fascistic, bullshit; speeches, yes, just recently; appointments, yes he made good. Promised 50% cabinet change, starting to deliver, appointment of Moshai highly highly significant, if you want to ignore it, fine. The sky is green. Cairo, don't know enough about it yet, you tell me. But don't forget what color the sky is.  Questions about who pulls what strings and what real fissures are further complicating, possible paralysis leading to two-party system interesting to consider.

Propaganda begins with the framing. Putting his crisis management as moderate in the first paragraph frames the article in a specious way. Yet the issue of moderation in his first political choices is real as well as surprising. There is a very weird phenomenon going on of diametrically opposed choices being made, more moderate on foreign policy issues, draconian on human rights issues. The article is grossly propagandistic on the human rights end, but has things to offer us on the geopolitical end.  PS If you think it disgraces AT to keep publishing him, why just complain to me? Complain to them.

That's what the I'net is supposed to be about. Collective global responsibility for truth and future of the planet.

I repeat: listen to thine enemy. Always has something to offer. 



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KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

by rtayebi1 on Mon Jul 20, 2009 09:01 PM PDT

I do appreciate Ur posts. It always makes me think. So at least one person does not complain at all. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK


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