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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/06/news/ML-Iran-Obama.php
Iran leader offers Obama landmark congratulation
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 6, 2008
TEHRAN,Iran: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has congratulated Barack Obama on his election win — the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. president-elect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Ahmadinejad sent a message to Obama in which he congratulated the Democrat on "attracting the majority of voters in the election."
The text of the note was carried by the official IRNA news agency on Thursday.
In the message, Ahmadinejad also says he hopes Obama will "use the opportunity to serve the (American) people and leave a good name" during his term in office.
Iran and U.S. have no formal diplomatic relations since 1979 and the hostage drama when militant Iranian students held 52 Americans captive 444 days.
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I am sure that many people on the blog think that Obama's real name is: Mahmoud AhmaDemocrat
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Iran's Ahmadinejad congratulates Obama
2 hours ago
TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated US president-elect Barack Obama on his success -- rare praise between two countries which are arch-foes, IRNA news agency reported.
"I congratulate you on being able to attract the majority of votes of the participants of the election," Ahmadinejad said in a message to Obama carried by the official agency.
"You know the opportunities bestowed upon people by God are short-lived," he said.
"I hope you make the most of the chance of service and leave a good name by preferring people's real interests and justice to the insatiable demands of a selfish and indecent minority.
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"The great Iranian nation welcomes real, basic and fair changes in behaviour and policies, especially in this region," Ahmadinejad said, referring to the Middle East.
"You are generally expected to make a fast and clear response to the demands for basic... change in US domestic and foreign policy, which all people in the world and Americans want on top of your agenda," he told Obama.
The Iranian president said Obama is expected to replace US "militaristic policies, occupation... and the imposition of unfair and discriminatory relations with an attitude based on justice, respect for nations' rights and non-interference.
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"The US government's interference should be limited to that country's geographical boundaries," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations for nearly three decades since Islamist students took American diplomats hostage for 444 days following the 1979 Islamic revolution which toppled the US-backed shah.
Hostility has since deepened, with the late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini branding the United States the "Great Satan." President George W. Bush has denounced Iran as part of an "axis of evil.
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The escalation of Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West against a backdrop of defiant and inflammatory rhetoric from Ahmadinejad has even raised the spectre of an American military strike against Iran.
The Americans accuse Iran of meddling in Iraq and sponsoring "terrorism" by backing militant groups such as the Palestinian Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah, while Ahmadinejad has triggered international outrage for calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
After three decades of outright hostility, many Iranians believe Obama's election may help to improve relations.
The two sides have held a series of meetings on the security situation in Iraq and in July, the US administration for the first time sent a senior diplomat to attend talks between Iran and six major powers on the nuclear row.
The Islamic republic has also expressed a willingness for the United States to open an interests section in Tehran.
The question now is how the new man in the Oval Office will handle the clerical regime in Iran, a key political and economic player in the Middle East.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on all key policy issues, has not yet commented on the result of the US election.
Last week the all-powerful leader said hatred of Washington was deep-seated, and he praised the Islamist students who took over the US embassy in 1979.
"Besides, they (the United States) have not apologised yet and rather keep on with their arrogant attitude," Khamenei said.
Since when is our enemies hating us less a bad thing?
anon 1:36
Is that what Ahmadinejad is doing, hating us less? Let's hope Mr. Obama doesn't follow your line of thinking or we'll never get out of the Mid East.
Oh.... I'd like to buy the world a coke...... La La La.......perfect harmony......
Ahmadinejad can not be trusted. The Iranians will destroy western civilization if given half a chance. I fear that there is a deadly snake at the end of his olive branch.
Did you know that the vast majority of Iranian citizens are decent human beings who love their families, friends, and neighbors? They want a stable economy and government....kinda just like us. Should all U.S. citizens be denigrated because of the way our government behaved over the last 8 years? Believe it or not, the world is not black and white.
Who remembers the Shah of Iran? What 3 letter organization set him up in power? What did he do to the people of Iran? How did Exxon become so wealthy? What were the situations which made the Ayatollah's Power a possibility? America has blood on its hands. Our leaders have sold us out.
Hey Cobra Commode,
Why don't you and the rest of your obamabuttbuddies tattoo a big O on your foreheads so that when we are attacked again we can pick you @sses off first.
anon 10:41
You are brilliant! I would have never thought of killing Americans with whom I disagree. Brilliant. You must feel really proud now don't you? Smartest guy in the room. How did you come up with that? Geez, I wish I were . . .
the reason is, by the time the end of february, bombs will be dropping. He'd say anything to postpone the inevitable.
a j does know the "one" is just a "frontman". Doesn't he?
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