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Call to step back from engaging Iran, as leading cleric assails “military regime”

By Michael Allen on September 14, 2009

As the latest round of Stalinist-style show trials restart in Tehran, a leading ayatollah today called for clerics to speak out against the “military regime.” 
The current regime is not a legitimate heir of the 1979 revolution, said Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic Republic and a former confidant to Ayatollah [read full story]

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Ahmadinejad’s second term – Islamization and Chavismo?

By Michael Allen on July 15, 2009

With four of Iran’s leading ayatollahs declaring the current regime illegitimate, the Islamic Republic faces a crisis of credibility, writes Abbas Milani.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s second term is likely to feature a familiar blend of economic populism, corrupt enrichment of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and paramilitary Basij, but an intensified program of social “Islamization”.
The republican elements [read full story]

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