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Blog Source: raymondpronk.wordpress.com
Iran has had two Supreme Leaders; currently the post is occupied by Ali Khamenei. The Supreme Leader is elected by the Assembly of Experts, which is also in charge of overseeing the Supreme Leader, and also has the power to dismiss him. ... Several
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Blog Source: dissidentvoice.org
As a result, Ahmadinejad was able to strike a populist pose to win the 2005 presidential elections — with the help of vote fraud to get into a runoff election, which he won handily against Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric, former
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Blog Source: www.upiasia.com
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during Friday Prayer in Tehran, Iran on June 19, 2009, in front of a photo of former Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Supporters of the late and current ayatollahs are at odds over ...
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Blog Source: www.heritage.org
Powerful members of the old guard revolutionary leadership, such as former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, have sided with the opposition against Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani may be able to use his
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Blog Source: willyloman.wordpress.com
His main role is to take the heat from the governing grand Ayatollah. No Iranian, and no informed westerner, could possibly believe that Ahmadinejad is a dictator. Even Ahmadinejad's superior, Khamenei, is not a dictator as he is ...
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Blog Source: thisfuckingwar.blogspot.com
Some protesters in Tehran have chanted the previously unthinkable slogan "Death to Khamenei." Though much of Iran's ruling establishment remains solidly behind Ayatollah Khamenei, some senior clerics -- within Iran and abroad -- have ...
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Blog Source: muslimmedianetwork.com
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani – Iran's savviest political operator and an arch-enemy of Ayatollah Khamenei's – has kept out of the public spotlight since the rigged June 12 presidential election triggered the political crisis. ...
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Blog Source: arirusila.wordpress.com
The Supreme Leader Khamenei also faced a stark warning from another senior cleric and onetime rival, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. “If Iranians cannot talk about their legitimate rights at peaceful gatherings and are instead ... In his
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Blog Source: downwithtyranny.blogspot.com
To recap yesterday, there is now no doubt that the election was stolen. although this morning the Guardian Council-- headed by the Ann Coulter of Iran-- announced that they would not annul the results of the tainted balloting. ... Among those who are