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The Obama Administration must recalibrate its Iran policy and takea tougher public stance in support of the Iranian opposition's campaign for greater freedom.
Signs of decay
Yassamine Mather looks at Iran’s presidential hopefuls and what passes for their rival programmes
The final round of Iran’s presidential elections are less than a month away, yet we still do not know the list of ‘accepted’ candidates.
Last week the current president, Hassan Rouhani, criticised the latest set of rules decided by Shoraye Negahban (the Guardian Council), insisting that the council had no legal authority to impose new criteria for presidential election candidates - they had barred anyone younger than 40 and older than 75. When the registration started, the ministry of interior ignored the Guardian Council’s decision and registered all candidates who had presented their papers. The current legislation stipulates the candidate qualifications:
and and more news stay tuned to cnn that same flight had another emergency with a disruptive passenger as it approached detroit. the suspect that failed bombing is now in federal prison and preparing for a court hearing on monday. and in iran, one of the most of the death of the nephew of iran s prominent opposition leaders. good evening, i m drew griffin in for don lemon tonight. we want to welcome our viewers to cnn international. we knew that the fate for the flight was bad but now it s worse than even thought. it was enough to destroy it in flight. cnn homeland security correspondent and drew, i hear from a source from acknowledge of the abdul and and how powerful the device might have been and the low but the information from that source and if it was enough to take down the plane if this device worked as it was intended and if passengers and developed after world war i and explosive power. this is a demonstration up loaded on what 50 grahams can do. pten is the same sub
harvey s book, by the way, is holy war on the home front. and jack rice. america s very first homeland security chief, the former governor of pennsylvania, tom ridge, will be with us tomorrow night. that will not be dull. stay tuned now for more news stay tuned now for more news right now here on cnn. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and we begin tonight with breaking news. sources tell cnn there was enough high explosive on board northwest flight 253 on christmas day to blow it out of the sky. as if nerves weren t on edge enough, today that same flight had another emergency with a disruptive passenger as it approached detroit. the suspect that failed bombing is now in federal prison and preparing for a court hearing on monday. and overnight countless air travelers on one of the busiest travel days of the year now face tighter security and new rules about what they can and cannot do, including bathroom breaks in flight. and in iran one of the most important religious