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Coverage of Oppression by Time's Almost 'Man of the Year' Avoids a Certain Brutal Word |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 11:01 am |
| Tags: foreign policy, iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad, google news, new york times, time |
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How early it is to forget that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad almost was Time's Man of the Year. The Holocaust-denying Iranian despot was even, for a brief while, described as "Champion of the Dispossessed" and "Global Everyman" on its web site: Ahmadinejad is engaged in a horrible crackdown, whose scope has widened. Amir Taheri describes it in a Monday OpinionJournal.com column: The Mashad hangings (of seven young men), broadcast live on local television, are among a series of public executions ordered by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last month as part of a campaign to terrorize an increasingly restive population. Over the past six weeks, at least 118 people have been executed, including four who were stoned to death. According to Saeed Mortazavi, the chief Islamic prosecutor, at least 150 more people, including five women, are scheduled to be hanged or stoned to death in the coming weeks. The latest wave of executions is the biggest Iran has suffered in the same time span [ Full article ] |
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