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Many believed the election results were preordained, if not precooked. For months it had been a foregone conclusion that the next President of Iran would be Ali Akbar Nateq-Noori, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, a staunch conservative backed by the country's most powerful political machine. He even had the implicit support of Iran's Supreme Leader, the Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, successor of the Ayatullah Khomeini...
...must end its support of international terrorism and its opposition to the Mideast peace process before improved diplomatic relations can be achieved. Don't look for a rapprochement any time soon, says TIME's Scott MacLeod: "It is very unlikely that we will see something from Khatami or the Iranian government in a major way. There may be some subtle things, and to some extent, we have already seen this. In his first press conference, Khatami didn't go out of his way to attack the U.S. But what the U.S. is more likely to see is Iran's standard...
...proven track record for being an advocate of a more tolerant society. That would translate into more openness with the outside world in terms of trade and investment. Although nothing would happen overnight, this may improve relations with the West, which has been very critical of the Iranian regime since the Islamic Revolution." But MacLeod adds that a victory by Nateq-Nouri could make Iran a more insular nation. The likelihood he will take the election is enhanced, he says, by the fact that conservative trends have been gaining ground in Iran over the past several years. The backing Nateq...
Western experts doubt claims by the N.C.R. that it is funded by the Iranian exile community, contending that Saddam pays for its operations. Most of the N.L.A.'s armor and other equipment, they say, was captured from Iran toward the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that ended in 1988. The Massouds "are simply not a viable alternative to the current regime because of their ties to Iraq," says Eisenstadt. Clawson says the People's Mujahedin's radical-left politics is also out of step. "Their day is past," he says...
Mojtaba Shadbash, 23, is one of them. Her brother joined the N.L.A. a year ago, she said, and she was subsequently arrested and harassed by Iranian police. Two months ago, she walked for two days across the mountains to join her brother in the Iraqi desert. Her sole aim: "I want to overthrow the regime." Her passion, and that of her companions in arms, is not enough. But clearly the National Liberation Army will remain a knife in the side of the Tehran government for years to come...