Last night turned into a fiery exchange of words during the second of several debates lined up ahead of next week’s presidential election. While there currently no English translations available on YouTube of the debates, CCTV has a couple of clips up here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ythBumOAtZ0
Former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Musavi and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad traded barbs on issues ranging from the economy to nuclear power to Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory comments about the Holocaust.
Reuters, the New York Times, and Bloomberg all discuss the debate in more detail.
Samah Choudhury contributed to this post