Defecting Iranian Diplomat Says Ahmadinejad Government 'Damaging Iran'
An Iranian diplomat who resigned to join the opposition Green Movement says that the rule of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's government has damaged Iran's prestige and honor, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Hussein Alizadeh, who resigned on September 11 as the second in charge at the Iranian Embassy in Finland, told Radio Farda in an interview: "I didn't know that [the regime] would damage our prestige like the Mongolian did," a reference to the 13th-century conqueror Chinggis Khan. Alizadeh, 45, is the third Iranian diplomat in Europe to step ...
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