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Winner in Iran Calls for Unity; Reformists Reel

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Winner in Iran Calls for Unity; Reformists Reel

BY MICHAEL SLACKMAN
Published: June 26, 2005

TEHRAN, June 25 - Iran's newly elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said Saturday that he wanted to create a strong Islamic nation and issued a call for unity in his first comments after a landslide victory that left the country's reformist movement virtually powerless and threatened to further complicate relations with the United States.

In an address on state radio, Mr. Ahmadinejad, a religious conservative, said he would work toward building "an Islamic, exemplary, advanced and powerful nation," and urged Iranians to "forget all our rivalries and turn them into friendships."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/international/middleeast/26iran.html?

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