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	<title>Democracy Digest &#187; Revolutionary Guard</title>
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		<title>Iran: hard-liners consolidate as reformists demobilize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mir Hossein Mousavi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The leadership of Iran&#8217;s elite Revolutionary Guard has publicly affirmed its new ascendancy in the ruling elite, threatening reformist factions that there is no middle ground in disputing the regime’s legitimacy.
The guard&#8217;s role in recent events amounted to &#8220;a revival of the revolution&#8221;, said Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari.
&#8220;Because the Revolutionary Guard was assigned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: regime suppresses dissent, but has lost semblance of legitimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid signs of growing police brutality and arbitrary violence, the Iranian authorities are stepping up their repression of dissenters now that the Guardian Council has validated the June 12 election presidential results.
The government closed the reformist newspaper Etemad Melli after defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who is associated with the publication, insisted that Mahmoud Ahmedinejad [...]]]></description>
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