[caption id="attachment_28215" align="alignright" width="225"] A Former Soldier And A Diplomat: Presidential Candidate Saeed Jalili Tweets Photograph of Military Past[/caption]
Presidential Election Watch: Supreme Leader's Men to Back Jalili?
MP Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, a member of the Supreme Leader's 2+1 Committee,has indicatedthat the camp might swing behind Saeed Jalili: "One possibility is that the Conservative candidates withdrew in favor of hom."
Presidential Election Watch: Candidates Use Social Media To Campaign
Former President Hashemi Rafsanjani and nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili are the latest of Iran's Presidential candidates to join Twitter, using the social network to put out campaign slogans in Persian and English as well as to set out their positions on key issues.
Jalili, who tweets in Persian, Arabic and English, says he is a member of the "The People + 1" coalition, indicating that his concern is representing the Iranian nation. His slogan is a populist and nationalist spin on the name of the pro-Khamenei 2+1 coalition --- which has yet to select a unity candidate.
Jalili's coalition is with Iranian people; The coalition of "People Plus One".#Iranelection#Iran2013
Jalili, who makes frequent Quranic references in his tweets, also takes a nationalist stance --- though wrapped within the framework of the Islamic Revolution and the Islamic Republic --- referring to the role of the revolution in helping Iran make progress, including in its nuclear program:
850 thousands Iranian patients were being treated by 20% enriched uranium.We needed to have that because up to then we had only 5% enriched