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President Jalal Talabani on Sunday congratulated Ahmadinejad on his re-election. There were congratulatory messages, too, from top Shi'ite leaders Abdel Aziz al-Hakim and Moqtada al-Sadr. Hakim is in Tehran, receiving treatment for cancer, and Sadr is believed to be training to become an ayatullah in the...
2. Iraqis know it makes no difference who becomes President of Iran. Iraqis know from long experience that their neighbor - and historic enemy - is ruled not by its politicians but by its clergy. Although President Ahmadinejad gets plenty of press, even Iraqis with no interest in politics will tell you...
3. Many of Iraqi's leaders have close ties to the mullahs. Iraq's political élites have a cozy relationship with the Iranian clerical establishment that backs Ahmadinejad. Many Iraqi leaders - especially Shi'ites - spent the Saddam Hussein years as guests of the mullahs in Tehran. Others received monetary...
Iraqis' apathy toward the Iranian election could still change, of course. If Mousavi supporters continue to turn out in the millions and there's a real chance for a change in leadership, Iraqis will be reminded of the revolution that brought the mullahs to power in the first place. "The...
The government barred foreign media from covering rallies in Tehran - even the state-organized demonstration, where government officials urged the crowd not to let the election divide the nation and said the unrest would not threaten Iran's Islamic system. (See TIME Covers the 1979 Islamic Revolution.")