Dhimmitude: this is CNN

TEHRAN, Iran -- Candidates in Iran's presidential election have ended their campaigning ahead of Friday's closely contested vote, with moderate cleric and former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani appearing to lead the race.

Moderate they say?

Iran and the European Union are in negotiations over Iran's nuclear program, which the republic says is for peaceful purposes only.

However, diplomats say Iran is failing to provide a full and accurate declaration of all sensitive nuclear materials in the country as required by the 1970 nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Full story)

Meanwhile, Rafsanjani told CNN on Tuesday that the U.S. must relinquish what he called "a hostile attitude." (Full story)

"The United States before the [Islamic Revolution of 1979], and even after the revolution, has shown hostility toward Iran," he said.

"Before the revolution you supported the regime of the shah that treated people very badly, and even after the revolution the United States has not been very good to us."

Hmm maybe CNN should report this Moderate is the head of the Nuclear program

naaaah then we might get the right idea

Originally Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that its last experiments with the reprocessing of plutonium took place in 1993 but revised that date to 1998, according to a draft speech deputy IAEA chief Pierre Goldschmidt is due to make to the agency's board of governors on Thursday.

The speech, obtained by Reuters, said the IAEA had asked Iran to confirm that one bottle of a solution containing plutonium "had been processed in 1995 while the solution in the second one had been purified in 1998". It added that Iran confirmed this in a letter dated May 26, 2005.

more moderate acts

The polls offer three directions: to try to rejuvenate Khatami's crippled reforms, to reassert the influence of conservatives or to restore a powerful insider — Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani — to the presidency.

hmmm Al-Press in this msnbc page seems to suggest his moderation is between reformers and clerics

Moin's supporters insist that something more important is at stake: the freedom introduced since Khatami took office in 1997. Then, conservatives had free rein to crackdown on everything from TV satellite dishes to the Islamic dress for women. Now, many Iranians are hard-wired to the outside world and the women's coverings continue to shrink.

"We hear the marching of the hard-liners getting stronger. Vote Moin," read a mobile phone text message sent by his supporters.

CNN more Dhimmitude then Al-Press