WHY IRANIAN PRESIDENT LEFT EARLY
Lragir
Oct 23 2007
Armenia
Today the Iranian president Mahmud Ahmadinejad left Armenia, canceling
his address to the National Assembly and visit to the memorial to the
Genocide victims and the Blue Mosque. The Iranian media are making
different suppositions. One of them is that the visit of the Iranian
president to the museum of the genocide might cause unrest among the
Turkish-speaking community of Iran. The Iranian embassy to Armenia is
said to have received a number of letters from his country’s citizens
demanding that Ahmadinejad cancel his visit to the memorial.
Other sources state Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s early departure was caused
by some problems in Iran. Namely, on the eve of Ahmadinejad’s visit
to Armenia the secretary of the Iranian Security Council Larijani had
resigned, who negotiated with the EU representative Xavier Solana
on the "nuclear program". Larijani’s resignation caused a surge of
criticism in Iran.