There is also a small group in Montana, originally formed around the personality of Leland Jensen, who claimed a status higher than that of the Guardian.

He claimed to believe that the Guardianship was an institution intended to endure forever, and that he was the 2nd Guardian by virtue of his appointment to the IBC.

Joel Marangella was president of Remey's " Second International Bahá ' í Council " claimed in 1969 to have been secretly appointed by Remey as Guardian several years earlier, whose followers are now known as Orthodox Bahá ' ís.

Powell claimed in an article for The Guardian on 7 December 1988 that the new Western-friendly foreign policy of Russia under Mikhail Gorbachev heralded " the death and burial of the American empire ".

Iran is helping Syria to suppress the anti-government protests that broke out in 2011 and has provided training, munitions and high-tech surveillance technology. The Guardian has claimed that in May 2011 the Iranian Republican Guard increased its " level of technical support and personnel support " to strengthen Syria's " ability to deal with protesters ," according to one diplomat in Damascus.

An article Also in 2000, the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian reported that in a leaked text for a speech Mbeki was to give to an ANC caucus, Mbeki claimed that the CIA and Western drug companies were secretly promoting the view that HIV causes AIDS in order to increase sales of anti-HIV drugs.

It seems that Strathbogie may also have persuaded Robert to submit to Edward and Balliol — Sir Thomas Gray, in his Scalacronica claimed that he had actually done so — and may explain his removal as Guardian around this time.

On 20 October 1994, The Guardian newspaper published an article which claimed that Hamilton and another minister, Tim Smith, had received money, in the form of cash in brown envelopes.

The Guardian, a London-based newspaper, has claimed that Banana had travelled to South Africa, where he eventually died, in order to receive appropriate treatment for his cancer ; however, this assertion relies upon uncorroborated testimonial evidence.

The Guardian claimed in 1968 that the organisation was " probably the nearest British equivalent to the American John Birch Society ".

The Pall Mall Gazette argued that Salisbury had sailed into " the turbid waters of State Socialism "; the Manchester Guardian said his article was " State socialism pure and simple " and The Times claimed Salisbury was " in favour of state socialism ".

" Orion also hosts a great robotic warship, the Guardian, that must be destroyed before the planet can be claimed.

This was seen as giving " credence to conspiracy theories " as claimed by the mainstream newspapers The Daily Mail and The Guardian.

On 21 April 2007, The Guardian claimed that Meacher had the support of no more than 3 MPs and that his campaign was " virtually dead in the water ".

In July 2008, The Guardian claimed that the decision had already been made to replace and upgrade Britain's nuclear warhead stockpile at a cost of £ 3bn, extending the life of the warheads until 2055.

The Red Guardian is an identity that was created as the Soviet equivalent of Captain America ; since the fall of the Soviet Union, the name is no longer officially used, though at least two people have claimed the name.

A letter to the Times Literary Supplement, complained of unfair media pursuit of Walcott's past, a letter in The Guardian complained of unjust denigration of Padel, claiming she was " justly held in high regard " for her poetry and teaching, and a letter to The Times claimed that " Oxford has missed out for the worst of reasons.

In 2005, the Guardian claimed that it was ' by some measures the nation's most successful independent blog ', with over 15, 000 unique visitors a day, and ' arguably the grandfather of British political blogs '.

An article in The Guardian on 24 December 2011, entitled " The Guide's guide to the next 12 months ", claimed that the band were set to reunite in 2012 with a new album planned, although this has since been denied by official sources and confirmed to be a mistake by the articles author.

Writing in the Guardian, Charlie Brooker claimed that the use of Mitchell and Webb in the adverts was a curious choice.

Laughland has claimed that Ukraine's Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko's coalition, were linked with " neo-Nazis " in an article for The Guardian in 2004, that his ultimately successful attempts to seize power were backed on the streets by " druggy skinheads from Lvov " in The Spectator ; that reports of mass graves in Iraq were being exaggerated for political purposes ; and that concern for the massacres in the Sudan was driven by oil.

In an article in The Guardian, one critic claimed that the program was merely " evamping outdated notions of femininity and positioning them as cutting edge.

The Guardian claimed that USAID, National Endowment for Democracy, the International Republican Institute, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and Freedom House are directly involved ; the Washington Post and the New York Times also reported substantial Western involvement in some of these events.

" He also claimed that “ every person … who came out with a desire for remaining … are now most earnestly wishing to get away from it .” Perhaps the loss of many of his personal possessions in the wrecks of Sirius and HMS Guardian soured his attitude.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

In February 1951 Victor Gollancz wrote a letter to The Guardian asking people to join an international struggle against poverty.

In 1965, Shahak wrote a letter to Ha ' aretz which, according to Dan Rickman, writing in The Guardian in 2009, was the genesis for " he currently major debate within and outside Israel about Orthodox Jewish attitudes to non-Jews ".

In a 2002 letter to The Guardian Deborah relates the experience: " We were not prepared for what we found-the person lying in bed was desperately ill. She had lost two stone ( 28 pounds ), was all huge eyes and matted hair, untouched since the bullet went through her skull.

In December 2010, ahead of the UK Alternative Vote Referendum 2011, Straw was a signatory to a letter to the Guardian arguing in favour of the alternative vote.

In a 1997 letter to The Guardian, Tatchell defended an academic book about ' boy-love ', calling the work " courageous " before writing:

On 26 October 1997 a letter from Tatchell to The Guardian argued that the United Kingdom should suspend aid to Zimbabwe because of its violence against homosexuals.

On 15 September 2010, Tatchell, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter, published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

McEwan responded to his critics, and specifically the group British Writers in Support of Palestine ( BWISP ), in a letter to The Guardian, stating in part, " There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics, and for me the emblem in this respect is Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra – surely a beam of hope in a dark landscape, though denigrated by the Israeli religious right and Hamas.

On 15 September 2010, Austin, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

On 15 September 2010, Blackstone, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

On 15 September 2010, Foulkes, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

In a letter to the " Guardian " newspaper he stated:

Pinter used a similar phrase in an open letter, published in The Guardian, and addressed to Prime Minister Tony Blair, attacking his co-operation with American foreign policy.

For the 2004 European Parliament election, an attempt was made by Respect to present a joint slate with the Green Party as articulated in a letter by then Respect councillor Michael Lavalette in the Guardian ( 5 May 2005 ).

On 15 September 2010, Massey, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

On 15 September 2010, Lubbock, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in The Guardian, stating their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the UK.

A letter published in The Times and Guardian newspapers announced the formations of the group, citing " the general and alarming tendency to encroachment on the liberty of the citizen " as the reason for its establishment.

In a unpublished letter to The Guardian, in 1999, Ian Campbell detailed a further two programmes:

The organisation was formed in 1951 after a letter from Victor Gollancz to The Guardian was read by the future Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who coined the name.

This, and the objections of some of the approved candidates, led to a letter from Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, to the Guardian Council asking for the approval of Moeen and Mehralizadeh ( this had apparently been because of a request by Haddad-Adel, the conservative Speaker of the Parliament ).

It is unknown if that letter meant that the Guardian Council must have approved these two, or it should have only reconsidered their case.

Some conservative Majlis representatives had asked for the Guardian Council's rejection of Moeen, which happened finally but was reversed after a letter by Ayatollah Khamenei.