CARTER SAYS US POLICY WILL NOT CHANGE AFTER AHMADINEJAD’S VICTORY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.06.2009 12:51 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The United States urged Iran on Saturday to resolve
disputes over its presidential election peacefully, and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton said she hoped the outcome reflected the will
of the Iranian people.

The White House said it was monitoring the election closely, including
reports of "irregularities," after official results showed President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected by a huge margin over reformist
Mirhossein Mousavi.

"The United States has refrained from commenting on the election in
Iran. We obviously hope that the outcome reflects the genuine will
and desire of the Iranian people," Clinton added.

Incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared winner by a landslide in
Iran’s hotly-presidential vote.

Meanwhile, former US president Jimmy Carter said there would be no
change in American policy after the re-election of Ahmadinejad.

Carter said US policy would remain the same "because the same person
will be there" in brief remarks after he met Palestinian officials
in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Carter was president during Iran’s 1979 revolution that toppled the
US-backed shah and the hostage crisis that followed. "I think this
election brought a lot of opposition to his policy in Iran and I am
sure he will listen to this opposition and may modify it.", – he said