Word: dictatorship
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...really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship. Aryan Mojtahedi Montreal...
...maintained his control by rigging elections, torturing and murdering perceived enemies, and turning his country into a smuggling capital (the "price of peace," he once said). By the 1980s, as his power waned, the U.S., a onetime supporter because of Stroessner's anticommunist stance, labeled his regime a dictatorship...
...really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship. Aryan Mojtahedi Montreal Finding the Way to Peace Robert Malley's viewpoint on U.S. policy in the Middle East [July 24] is absurd. According to his theory, the next logical step would be for the Bush Administration to start peace negotiations with the Taliban, Iraqi insurgents and even Osama...
...temporarily assumed charge of the Cuban presidency for the first time last week as Fidel recovered from abdominal surgery, has always been there. His brother's designated successor, he was beside Fidel from the moment the two, with Raśl's acquaintance Che Guevara, launched the revolution that overthrew the dictatorship of Cuba's Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Having joined the Socialist Youth as a university student, Raśl was red before Fidel, who fought Batista in the name of nationalism and only later made his way to communism. Early on, the younger brother gained a reputation for ruthlessness, overseeing the execution...
...really does know who runs Iran." As an Iranian who lived there for 15 years, I would say that the Islamic Republic is directly controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and that President Ahmadinejad is merely a mascot for the regime. That type of government is a simple dictatorship...