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Lone Cleric, Mehdi Karroubi, Emerges to Defy Iran’s Leaders – NYTimes.com. Before you go considering Karroubi some sort of valiant savior, don’t forget that he’s a mullah who came up with Khomeini and was appointed adviser to Khamenei, and is one of the Revolution’s “Old Guard.” For a “reformist” (like all the others, including Mousavi, Khatami [...] Letter From Tehran: Iran’s New Hard-Liners | Foreign Affairs. A useful advanced primer on the internal power struggles of the Iranian regime, detailing a recent takeover of cabinet posts and critical industries by Revolutionary Guards’ “new Right” fundamentalists, who apparently control $12 billion a year smuggling networks which feed directly off Iran’s unchecked pariah status. By [...] |
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