[New York Times] Nazila Fathi - Rejecting the policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as "extremist," Mir Hussein Moussavi, 68, a former prime minister who last month announced his candidacy for president in the June elections, said Monday that he favored improved relations with the West and greater individual freedoms at home. "We need to pursue an active foreign policy to achieve detente," he said. "Extremism has cost us a high price." But he said he would not back down from the country's nuclear program, which began when he was prime minister from 1980 to 1988.
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