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Ahmadinejad Has Won the First Round, But Will He Win the Match

bobmazhari | 22 January, 2006 00:07

Ahmadinejad Has Won the First Round, But Will He Win the Match

20/01/2006

was born in Iran and educated in Tehran, London and Paris. Between 1980 and 1984 he was Middle East editor for the London Sunday Times. Taheri has been a contributor to the International Herald Tribune since 1980. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Taheri has published nine books some of which have been translated into 20 languages, and In 1988 Publishers'' Weekly in New York chose his study of Islamist terrorism, "Holy Terror", as one of The Best Books of The Year. He has been a columnist Asharq Alawsat since 1987
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Let’s make no bones about: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has won the first round of the match that he had tried hard to start against the major Western powers since his election last year. He wanted a confrontation and he has ended up getting one.

The European Union trio- Britain, Germany and France- and the United States, are now exactly where Ahmadinejad wanted them to be at this moment.

If they do nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear programme, Ahamdinejad will end up having his “nuclear surge capacity

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