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Originally Posted by zerojunkie  Not saying he's expressed love for either one, but I wouldn't say I've seen anything saying he hates America and Israel. He's stated he wants to improve Iran's international relations, and hating either Israel or America doesn't do much to achieve that goal. |
Mousavi:
While in office, he
severed ties with Great Britain over the U.K.'s refusal to disavow Salman Rushdie, the British author whose
The Satanic Verses spurred Ayatollah Khomeini to declare a fatwa calling for Rushdie's death
Was placed on the leadership council of Lebanon's Shi'ite militant group Hizballah by Ayatollah Khomeini when the group was founded in 1982.
Mousavi does not recognize Israel, though he has condemned the Holocaust Defended the seizure of 52 American hostages at the U.S. embassy in 1979. The hostages were held for more than 400 days; the two countries have not had normalized relations since
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