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Blog Source: www.correntewire.com
They also detained the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during an opposition rally in Tehran on Saturday, according to state media. A disputed June 12 election which returned to power hardline anti-Western President ...
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Blog Source: riverdaughter.wordpress.com
Judging from the talking points being constantly spewed by the likes of Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Eric Cantor (R-VA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Paul Ryan (R-WI), Max Baucus (DLC-MT), Blanche Lincoln (DLC-AR), Mary Landrieu (DLC-LA), ...
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Blog Source: www.workersliberty.org
Khamenei condemned the idea of a “Green Revolution” i.e. the idea on which the Iranian protestors have modelled their movement — i.e. a movement that is for a fair democratic result and to remove a corrupt political system (as in seen in ....
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Blog Source: jeremisuri.net
To the dismay of Ayatollah Khamenei, who remains supreme leader, Mir Hussein Moussavi, the candidate whom President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “defeated” in the rigged elections, has become the new Khatami — except he is far more powerful. ...
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Blog Source: kenthink7.blogspot.com
Like Ahmadinejad, Mousavi is part of the Iranian establishment, representing a faction of the ruling elite that favors closer relations with the United States, free market policies and an opening of Iran to foreign investment, ... These included one
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Blog Source: tribulationperiod.com
Rafsanjani was president between 1989 and 1997, but failed to win a third term when in 2005, losing to Ahmadinejad in a runoff. He was a close follower of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, father of Iran's Islamic Revolution. .... A former
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Blog Source: jeffweintraub.blogspot.com
Instead, he is one of the central figures--perhaps the iconic figure--of the clerico-kleptocratic 'establishment' faction of Iran's authoritarian elite. It was also Rafsanjani, not Ahmadinejad, who once mused publicly that a nuclear war ... During
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Blog Source: cricketdiane.wordpress.com
Split Deepens Within Iran Regime as Rafsanjani Family Targeted. By Henry Meyer. June 22 (Bloomberg) — Splits within Iran's ruling elite deepened, with police arresting family members of an ex- president and a former nuclear negotiator ...