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...rightist and leftist factions," Qalibaf told TIME. "The world is going through constant change. Just because we've had an Islamic revolution doesn't mean we don't learn from the good works of other parts of the world." Indeed, in the 2005 election, he won the support of reformist voters who had become disillusioned with the failure of their own leaders to deliver greater freedom and modernization...
...everyone is convinced of his good faith. Mohammed Ali Abtahi, who was Vice President to President Mohammed Khatami, the reformist President of Iran from 1997 to 2005, ridicules the idea that reformers would truly align themselves with the centrist bloc Qalibaf envisions. "In reality this is a political current constructed by the state in order to present personalities from the conservatives like Qalibaf as reformists," Abtahi says, pointing out that Qalibaf played a prominent role in quelling pro-democracy dissent during Khatami's presidency. And while perhaps not the unreconstructed revolutionary that Iran's hard-liners so admire, Qalibaf...
...while Bulgaria showed some reformist zeal in the run-up to joining the European club, momentum quickly slipped once Sofia was in, despite repeated warnings from Commission officials that lack of progress could hurt funding. This proves that "E.U. membership is no magic bullet, " says Diana Kovatcheva, Bulgarian head of anti-corruption group Transparency International. "The lack of administrative and management capacity and political will to undertake substantive anti-corruption measures hamper their success and enforcement." In the past, wayward new members have avoided punishment because Brussels' attention has slipped. The Commission's new tougher approach will establish whether punishment...
...controversy over Bruni's extra-Elyeesian endeavours - and the conflicting critical appreciation of her CD - was a virtual certainty, given the passions husband Nicolas Sarkozy has unleashed with his reformist drive, polarizing style and long-established exploitation of his private life as part of his public relations mix. Reaction has therefore tended to fall predictably according to political affiliation...
...Iraq has sent shockwaves through the Islamic world. In November of last year, Bush ally Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, suspending that state’s constitution and silencing the dissent that arrives, organically, with true democracy. The one-time reformist hope for troubled Pakistanis—opposition leader Benazir Bhutto ’73, long in exile—came to a tragic end in January, when the former Prime Minister was assassinated on campaign in Rawalpindi. The media attention that swirled around Bhutto’s murder only contributed...