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...telling indication of Ahmedinajad's woes was the enormous difficulty he faced in appointing an oil minister: his first three choices were summarily rejected by the conservative-dominated Iranian parliament. It didn't help that the man he had beaten in the election, Rafsanjani, is head of the powerful Expediency Council, which arbitrates disputes between the parliament and the ayatollahs. That power allows Rafsanjani to undermine Ahmedinijad's policies. As a result, the President was reduced to moaning that none of his predecessors had ever faced such hostility at home...
...start by requiring Iran to comply with existing IAEA resolutions, and then consider measures to strengthen the IAEA's powers of inspection, although the problem with this scenario is that the U.N. agency cannot operate without the compliance of the host country. Other options may include travel bans on Iranian officials or restrictions on fuel supplies in the country from India-despite being a major oil producer, Iran's refining capacity is limited and it still imports a substantial portion of the fuel it consumes domestically. Crucial to the outcome of the London discussions, and any Security Council deliberation, will...
...will not take a step back on our path." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, on his country's stated plans to resume nuclear research this week...
...Mahdi told TIME he was about to bolt from SCIRI and form his own party. He changed his mind-likely because he knows he has no grassroots support or street cred of his own. As prime minister, he would be little more than a puppet in the hand of Iranian ayatollahs, and unlikely to do more than Jafaari to accommodate the Sunnis...
Although some experts speculate that the letter was drawn up by Iranian intelligence to dupe al-Zarqawi, the CIA and Pentagon insist that the 13-page missive is not a forgery and that it reveals differences between the old al-Qaeda leaders and al-Zarqawi over tactics and ideology. At the same time, the letter also indicates an acknowledgment by al-Zawahiri that the al-Qaeda hierarchy has been reordered. "It wasn't the letter of an overall commander pulling the choke chain of a subordinate," says Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp. think tank in Washington...