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...popular support in the electorate for hard-won reforms, the face-lifted right wing distanced itself from familiar right-spectrum parties and themes, instead choosing an image of progress and "service to the people," signaled by their name, 'Developers.' Showcasing only two known figures - former minority leader Gholamali Haddad-Adel, and the twice-defeated presidential contender Ahmad Tavakoli - the Abadgaran responded to Iranians' disillusionment with politics by offering candidates with professional expertise rather than ideology...
...What all the candidates on our list have in common is their economic expertise and their revolutionary experience," says Haddad-Adel's 30-year old son Farid, who has been active in the campaign. "Some of these people have been tortured in the Shah's prisons, or have been wounded in the holy Iran-Iraq war," he says, adding, "we are loyal to this regime and the leader," pointing to Ayatollah Khamenei's portrait on his mobile phone screen for emphasis...
...fundamentally from reformists in that they do not question the vast constitutional power of unelected bodies, they still prefer to be called reformist. "We don't believe in the reforms of the so-called reformists. We will implement our own understanding of reforms in an Islamic Iran," says Haddad-Adel. "Real reforms," he says, "means a better standard of living within Islamic morals...
...requesting - their right to freedom of religion as citizens of Europe." To many Muslims, last week's episode in Italy suggests that some religions are more free than others. The case was brought against the public school in the small medieval town of Ofena in central Italy by Adel Smith, the 43-year-old leader of the Italian Union of Muslims, who converted from Catholicism to Islam in 1987. Smith, who's written two polemical books against Christianity, argued that the crucifix in his son's classroom violated his right to public education free of religious influence...
...ADEL SMITH, leader of the Italian Union of Muslims