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...biggest winner in this election is Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Since succeeding to the head of the theocracy with the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, Khamenei has always had to contend with rival conservatives like Rafsanjani or with reformist Mohammed Khatami, who has held the presidency since then. While that office has always been much less powerful than that of the venerable Supreme Leader (Khamenei, while theoretically above politics, runs Iranian foreign and nuclear policy from behind closed doors), the presidency has been a strategic bully pulpit for those with ideas different from the theocracy...
...Bush Administration has never been swayed by the reformist face of Iran over the past few years and remains unmoved by Ahmadinejad's soothing words after the election. "We will judge the regime by its actions," said Joanne Moore, a State Department spokeswoman. Relations between Washington and Tehran are unlikely to be warmed by the new lineup. "With neoconservatives in power in Washington, it is dangerous to have neoconservatives in power in Tehran," says an Iranian political scientist...
...fact that so many demonstrators showed up despite the official pressure is a sign that campus discontent in Peking goes beyond anti-Japanese sentiments. Many students resent the fact that the benefits of Deng's reformist economic policies have gone to members of a Chinese elite that includes the well-connected children of Communist officials. The favored youth have a far better chance than most of getting good jobs or traveling abroad after graduation. Faced with a steep rise in the cost of living as a result of the reforms, many students are finding their already spartan daily lives less...
This makes Hart a reformist liberal, a venerable, once honorable political label. Admittedly both ends of the term have poor p.r. value nowadays. Perhaps he does need a better handle. But what is the pull of the future? It sounds good--for about ten minutes. Even in 1984, voters quickly grew cynical about it and its companion, "new ideas...
...revolutionary days, have a "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...