Defeat for Iran’s foes
On June - 30 - 2009
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday hailed his disputed re-election as a victory for the Iranian people and a defeat for the Islamic Republic’s enemies.
The June 12 poll sparked Iran’s most vigorous internal unrest since the 1979 Islamic revolution, but hardliners have regained the upper hand in the world’s fifth biggest oil exporter, whose nuclear program has alarmed the West.
