A Reporter at Large: Fugitives: The New Yorker - 0 views
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Foreign capital is fleeing to Dubai, and Tehran’s stock market has fallen by twenty per cent since May. Curiously, Ayatollah Khamenei issued an edict in October that gave sweeping new powers to Rafsanjani, who runs a government body known as the Expediency Council—a move widely seen as an effort to rein in Ahmadinejad. The new President, in other words, may be too hard-line for even the Supreme Leader.
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Frank Gallagher on 03 May 09Khamenei gives power to Expediency Council. Chera?
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Interesting article on reformist activists after the last election. Some good insights into the 2005 Ahmadinejad campaign.
