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See pictures from Iran's tumultuous election.
After Khatami on July 20 demanded that a referendum be held on whether Iranians accept the outcome of the election, Khamenei must have been sorely tempted to order the Revolutionary Guards to round up the opposition, including Khatami. Khatami's speech was a direct swipe at the legitimacy of his...
Now that Khamenei has refused new elections, the opposition has switched from challenging the June 12 election results to attacking the legitimacy of Khamenei himself. They are counting on Khamenei to continue cracking down on demonstrators, arresting larger numbers of opposition supporters and eventually jailing the leaders. In the end...
What kind of organization would this be? Iran currently does not really have national political parties with broad public participation, just political factions and loose associations of like-minded politicians. The history of parties over the past 30 years has not been encouraging. Ayatullah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republican Party...
How much chance does the Green Movement have? Few are willing to predict the outcome. Mousavi's refusal to back down, and the relatively unified stance that he, Khatami and Karroubi have taken, have generated a large degree of legitimacy among those Iranians who felt cheated by the election. Indeed...