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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the resolution adopted by the U.N. Security Council is of no value
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ဟိုမွာလည္း ေဘာလံုး၊ ဒီမွာလည္း ေဘာလံုး ဆိုေသာ အသံမ်ားသာ လႊမ္းမိုး ေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ ဒူးႀကီးလည္း လံုးဖို႔ ျပင္ရေတာ့သည္။ တတုိင္းျပည္လံုး မလံုးမေနရ ေၾကညာ ဦးမည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ 
မိုးဦးက်ကာလ ငါးရစ္တက္ခ်ိန္၌ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္အတြင္း ငါးဖမ္းျခင္းအေပၚ တားျမစ္မႈကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ယခုတစ္ပတ္ အ တြင္း စတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
အာဏာ႐ွင္စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ႏ်ဴကလီးယားစီမံကိန္းအား ကမာၻသိေအာင္ ဗိုလ္မႉး စိုင္းသိန္း၀င္း ထုတ္ေဖၚၿပီးေနာက္ယခု အပတ္အတြင္း ၎၏မိသားစု ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ကန္႕သတ္ခံလိုက္ရၿပီး ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းအင္တာနက္ဆိုင္မ်ားလည္း စစ္ေဆးေမးျမန္း ျခင္းခံရေၾကာင္း ေက်ာက္မဲသတင္းရပ္ကြက္မွသိရပါသည္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအ၀ွမ္း ဘိန္းစိုက္ပ်ဳိးမႈ ကင္းစင္ေရး ၁၅ ႏွစ္ စီမံကိန္း စစ္အုပ္စုလ်ာထားေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ႕အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖၚႏိုင္ျခင္းမ႐ွိေသးေၾကာင္း သွ်မ္းျပည္မူးယစ္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ ေရးအဖြဲ႕ကေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါသည္။
နအဖစစ္အစိုးရႀကီးမႉး က်င္းပမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၌ ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မည့္ သွ်မ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီက ၄င္းပါတီ၏ ဆိုင္းဘုတ္တင္ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို သွ်မ္းျပည္(ေျမာက္ပိုင္း) နမ့္ခမ္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ နံနက္ ၇ နာရီ ၄၅ မိနစ္တြင္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္း ဟုမၼလင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဥရုေခ်ာင္းရိုးတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ေရႊလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားတြင္ ယခုအခါ ေရႊအထြက္ႏႈန္း က်ဆင္းလာ ေသာေၾကာင့္ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္အခ်ိဳ႕ အရံႈးေပၚ၍ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား မၾကာခဏ ရပ္ဆိုင္းရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
