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Iran Breaks News to U.S. Presidential Candidates: No Endorsements
FOX News ^ | March 12, 2008 | Staff

Posted on 03/12/2008 4:12:54 PM PDT by forkinsocket

Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls looking for endorsements can cross one potential backer off their list: Iran.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini earlier this week announced that Iran's leaders will not support any U.S. candidate running for president, according to a report posted on IRNA, the country's official news agency.

Hosseini added that Iran hoped the presidential elections "would bring about serious changes in the incorrect approach of the present administration."

Meanwhile, London Mayor Ken Livingstone probably can cross Iran off his list of political supporters, too, after telling a gathering of Jewish community leaders that the idea of a society run by ayatollahs is "horrifying" and "completely wrong."

He then called Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a "barking mad."

Asked if he thought Iran was a threat and if he would condemn the Iranian regime, Livingstone mockingly said: "I notice I didn't get any praise from the Jewish community when I said I'd like to see the Saudi royal family swinging from the lampposts — which I thought was a reasoned intervention into Middle Eastern affairs," according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: elections; iran; livingstone; uk
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1 posted on 03/12/2008 4:12:54 PM PDT by forkinsocket
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To: forkinsocket

Damn...now I don’t know what to do.


2 posted on 03/12/2008 4:14:47 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: forkinsocket

"D@mn. Well at least he's not a super-delegate."

3 posted on 03/12/2008 4:16:54 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: forkinsocket
You don't need to be a brain surgeon to figure out that they're pulling for Osama Huessein Obama.
4 posted on 03/12/2008 4:17:03 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Women swooned in Mao's presence too.)
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To: forkinsocket

Iran knows too well an explicit endorsement would be counterproductive.


5 posted on 03/12/2008 4:18:39 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: forkinsocket

So they want to deal with GW 4 more years ?

Cool , lock and load......


6 posted on 03/12/2008 4:18:49 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.©)
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To: tsmith130
Damn...now I don’t know what to do.

 

Vote for McGovern.

7 posted on 03/12/2008 4:20:18 PM PDT by Fintan
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To: forkinsocket
Jeezy Peezy... that's so upsetting --> NOT

Suspect that Barack Hussien Obama is their H.O.P.E.

8 posted on 03/12/2008 4:20:43 PM PDT by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: forkinsocket

Unlike Osama bin Laden, Iranians are not stoopid. They knew any hint of ‘endorsement’ toward Obama or any of the Dims would be kiss of death to the person they endorsed.


9 posted on 03/12/2008 4:25:23 PM PDT by paudio (Conservatism: like it or not, it's a word with multiple meanings.)
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To: forkinsocket

Another disappointed Kucinich fan, truth be told. BTT.


10 posted on 03/12/2008 4:27:43 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: xtinct

H.O.P.E.

Hussein Obama President Elect?


11 posted on 03/12/2008 4:29:49 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Vaclav Klaus on global warming skeptics: "a whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
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To: forkinsocket

Iran is definitely sending Obama a message: they are not happy with his latest interview with an Israeli reporter that quoted him saying he thought Israel had a right to defend itself.


12 posted on 03/12/2008 4:30:02 PM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: forkinsocket

Democrats around this country breathe a collective sigh of relief.


13 posted on 03/12/2008 4:47:26 PM PDT by Radix (There are two types of Tag Lines,: Short snappy ones, and the other kind that seem to go on and)
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To: paudio
They knew any hint of ‘endorsement’ toward Obama or any of the Dims would be kiss of death to the person they endorsed.

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For the time being I'manutjob will think to himself his thoughts.

14 posted on 03/12/2008 4:47:59 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Fintan

Phew...thank you!


15 posted on 03/12/2008 4:49:23 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: forkinsocket

Will think make Barack ( Oo ee oo ah ah, Tng tang,Wala wala bing bang ) Obama, cry?


16 posted on 03/12/2008 4:49:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (Serve your country today, fire a democrat.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Iran hoped the presidential elections “would bring about serious changes in the incorrect approach of the present administration.”

Obvious Democrat endorsement.


17 posted on 03/12/2008 5:31:35 PM PDT by Son House (Democrat High Tax Rates Suppress Opportunity and Jobs..)
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