Ahmadinejad threatens election rivals.Summary: Iran's President has threatened to jail his election rivals after accusing them of acting like Hitler. Iran's President has threatened to jail his election rivals after accusing them of acting like Hitler. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted which do not the text.Please help [ improve this article] by checking for inaccuracies. said his opponents could face jail for using smear smear (smer) a specimen for microscopic study prepared by spreading the material across the slide. Pap smear , Papanicolaou smear see under test. tactics against him. Mr Ahmadinejad was speaking at a rally in Tehran on the final day of an increasingly bitter and hard-fought election campaign, in which he faces a growing challenge from moderate former prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi. Mr Mousavi's supporters, dressed in his green campaign colour, have taken to the streets of Tehran for nightly rallies, waving flags and banners and shouting anti-Ahmadinejad slogans. There have been sporadic clashes in the capital but the campaign for Friday's election has been largely peaceful. Mr Mousavi and the two other candidates say Mr Ahmadinejad has lied about the state of the economy, which is suffering from high inflation and a fall in oil revenues. Mr Ahmadinejad said: "No one has the right to insult the president, and they did it. And this is a crime. The person who insulted the president should be punished, and the punishment is jail. "Such insults and accusations against the government are a return to Hitler's methods, to repeat lies and accusations ... until everyone believes those lies." Insulting senior officials, including the president, is a crime in Iran carrying a maximum two-year jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison . Meanwhile, a senior Revolutionary Guard accused President Ahmadinejad's pro-reform opponents of waging a "velvet revolution The "Velvet Revolution" (Czech: sametová revoluce, Slovak: nežná revolúcia) (November 16 – December 29 1989) refers to a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that saw the ". "The presence of supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi on the streets are part of the velvet revolution," said Yadollah Javani, head of the Guards' political office, using a term used to describe the 1989 non-violent revolution A non-violent revolution is a revolution using mostly nonviolent protest against governments seen as entrenched and authoritarian to advocate democracy, liberalism or national independence in their nation. in Czechoslovakia. "Any kind of velvet revolution will not be successful in Iran," he said in comments published on the Guards' website. The hardline president has accused Mr Mousavi's supporters, including former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (Persian: اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی Akbar Hāshemī Rafanjānī), Hashemi Bahramani , of corruption. Mr Rafsanjani responded angrily, calling on the Islamic Republic's supreme leader Ayatollah ayatollah: see Shiites. ayatollah In the Shiite branch of Islam, a high-ranking religious authority regarded by his followers as the most learned person of his age. The ayatollah's authority rests on the infallible imam. Ali Khamenei to rein in to check the speed of, or cause to stop, by drawing the reins. to cause (a person) to slow down or cease some activity; - to rein in is used commonly of superiors in a chain of command, ordering a subordinate to moderate or cease some activity deemed excessive. See also: Rein Rein the President. The election will not change Tehran's nuclear policy, which is decided by the Ayatollah, but a victory for Mr Mousavi could herald a less confrontational relationship with the West. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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