Irony? Ahmadinejad Ran on Campaign of 'Change'

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/02/25/Azadeh_Moaveni_Honeymoon_in_Tehran

In this clip from February 2009, journalist Azadeh Moaveni notes that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ran on a campaign of 'change' during the 2005 election that initially saw him elected to office - a detail that may seem ironic in light of Iran's current allegations of electoral fraud.

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As one of the few American correspondents allowed to work continuously in Iran since 1999, Azadeh Moaveni has reported widely on women's rights, Islamic reform and youth culture. She discusses her personal experiences living and working in Iran, including how, after facing the threat of arrest, she fled the country to protect her family's safety. - Commonwealth Club of Silicon Valley

Azadeh Moaveni grew up in California, her parents having left Iran in 1976, three years before the Islamic revolution. The unresolved tension she felt between her cultural identity as an Iranian and an American led her to go to Iran as a journalist. For two years she wrote about Iran for Time, finding a complex and varied reality. Her stay was bracketed by the pro-democracy student demonstrations of 1999 and President Bush's "axis of evil" speech in 2001, after which the government clamped down hard on dissent and on journalists. She was compelled to leave in fear for her safety. Her book Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran is the account of Moaveni's time in Iran, and of her quest to better understand her cultural identity.

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[boxant]

she's cute

[guyincognito84]

I'm not fan of the islamic regime but in all fairness i have seen all of ahmadinejad's videos and he never denies the Holocaust....he just asks a series of questions.

[Khashayarmarzban]

@javadem Yeah, right! He won fair and square! He won all the votes fair and square by killing the innocents and terrorizing them, just like for the past 31 years of Islamic Republic of bastards!

[kirtooroohet]

she's ugly

[mraoufi9]

You better find another jog because when you talk every a few minutes you behave like you are sucking a candy and it is sooooo terrible. But about Ahmadinejad you proved that you dont know anything about him and Iranian government.

[sumrdays]

WHAT a BIMBO. Yes. I have read lipstick in Jihad AND Honeymoon in Tehran for College work. When she was young she openly admits to hiding the fact she was Iranian and being ashamed. She says she grew up nicely in California. You can tell with that bouncy talk. Why is it people are paying attention to the musings of a preppy valley girl just because her parents were Iranian and she visited for a while?

[Bestmanme08]

Google "Ahmadinejad punished my Christian mother's rapist" and see his good worka s mayor!

[Zzozze]

You're cute. Are you jewish?

[makkivi]

wake up Iranians and get this bloody Ahmadinefuckingjad burn to hell together with the mullahs

[makkivi]

@javadem Yes, yes, so fair and square that he ordered to shoot on young people whose crime was protesting.What if one of those killed was one of your relatives?Shame on you brownose of a troglodite dictator