top remormist journalist says bush's statement was pretty good

Alireza Lavai Tabar, one of the top reformists and a close friend to Said Hajjarian, writes in an article in Emrooz (Persian text) e-newspaper that Bush's recent statement had very positive point, but it seems that Khatami and the government hasn't actually realized those points and treated like the "Axis of Evil" statement with it. He thinks the main point of the statement is that States accept that Iranian people has chosen their way to democracy and freedom through reform and not another violent revolution. Posted by hoder at July 17, 2002 12:30 PM