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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poor relationship" and that Khamenei sent a message through Khatami instructing Rafsanjani not to run for the presidency. Rafsanjani's response: "I am the pillar of the revolution. I don't take permission." When Khamenei overturned the supervisory Guardian Council's decision to disqualify reformist presidential candidate Mustafa Moin, some Iranian analysts saw it as an attempt to whittle down Rafsanjani's vote totals and make him a weakened victor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Comeback Cleric | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

...international confidence, support gender equality and spur economic growth. The wily Rafsanjani, 70, is seen as a consensus builder, giving him an advantage over other top candidates such as former police chief Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, from the neo-conservative camp, and former Minister of Science and reformist candidate Mostafa Moin. "He's the only candidate capable of preventing extreme factionalism in Iran," says Nasser Hadian, a political science professor at Tehran University. "But he's also the only one who can broach relations with America," because only he has enough political power internally. In his two consecutive terms as Iranian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enter the Front Runner | 5/15/2005 | See Source »

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