Tag: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Happy Easter, Everybody! I hope you are having a peaceful and relaxing holiday weekend, whether you celebrate Easter or not. As you might have heard, President János Áder signed the legislation making Central European University’s operations in Hungary impossible into law this week. Demonstrations in Hungary keep going on, now the aim is to get MPs to refer the law to revision to the Constitutional Court (and the whole regime to leave, while we’re at it). The demonstrators are mostly university students, protesting peacefully against this irrational, outrageous and outright stupid act of the government. Meanwhile, on Easter Monday, there will…

Goodbye, Ahmadinejad: Rouhani takes over as Iran’s president Iran’s new President Hassan Rouhani took the oath of office Sunday, replacing controversial President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Well, the new president doesn’t seem to be any less controversial as of yet.

Iranian President Ahmadinejad speaks at UN High-level Meeting on Rule of Law Exciting times around the UN with the 67th session of the General Assembly launching last week.  Secretary General Ban Ki-moon holds bilateral meetings with world leaders before the general debate of the GA that is about to start tomorrow with some very prestigious speakers. Today’s main event was a High-level Meeting on the Rule of Law, Rule of Law being one of the main focuses of the 67th session of the GA. One of the leaders addressing the meeting was Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Anti-Semitic, anti-American Iranian President…