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...same weight in Iran as it might in a Western democracy. "Political power in Iran is divided up among a number of different institutions and power centers," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. The country's highest political office is that of supreme spiritual leader, originally created for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after the revolution of 1979 - although conservatives and reformers differ sharply on how much direct political control he should exercise. Ayatollah Khameini leads the country's conservative faction, whose control of the Council of Guardians - a non-elected body of clerics that has the power to vet candidates and veto...
...dizzying road from theocracy to democracy," says MacLeod, "reformers must find a way to speak to the Internet generation as well as to older Iranians who feel more comfortable with Islamic traditions and like to be assured that the reform movement remains loyal to the ideas of Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution." And this is no mere subterfuge: Khatami himself is a veteran of 1979, while the reform movement's most important ideological figure may be Ayatollah Ali Montezeir, the imprisoned liberal theologian who had once been Khomeini's handpicked successor. "Although the elections are likely to give Khatami a stronger...
...Frank Sinatra b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Margaret Thatcher d) Billy Graham...
...Winston Churchill b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Juan Peron d) Kemal Ataturk...
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