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...been a reporter for Newsweek, Maziar Bahari, a Canadian citizen of Iranian descent, who said the foreign media helped cause the chaos following the vote. However, the regime's intentions can be seen from the array of political figures on trial, including several Deputy Ministers, a deputy speaker of parliament and many current advisers to opposition leaders. The regime is building a case against their bosses, some of the most powerful political figures in Iran...
Ahmadinejad is now fending off threats of being deposed by the country's hard-liners, his erstwhile allies. "It seems you want to be the sole speaker and do not want to hear other voices," declared an open letter to the President from one conservative group linked to parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani (a potential rival for the presidency). "Therefore, it is our duty to convey to you the voice of the people." The group, the Islamic Society of Engineers, alluded to a possible coup by comparing Ahmadinejad to both Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who was booted in a CIA-orchestrated...
...making a bigger effort to communicate with us [than Palin did], particularly right now." - Alaska House Speaker Mike Chenault. (Anchorage Daily News, July...
...Islamic - that had taken part in the revolution, consolidating the postrevolutionary government under his auspices. Afterward, the IRP, the only official party in Iran during the 1980s, quickly became a vehicle for factional disputes over economic and social policies. Khomeini disbanded it in 1987. (Presidential candidate and former speaker of the parliament Mehdi Karroubi founded a party after his defeat in 2005, but no one has taken it seriously.) (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...Moore is not alone in his worries. Pressed by a widespread revolt among moderate Democrats over the potential cost of health care reform, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid of Nevada announced on Thursday that he would not meet President Obama's target of passing legislation by early August. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California backed away from the idea of cancelling the August recess. Obama tried his best to stoke a sense of urgency with a publicity campaign that included a televised press conference Wednesday evening. But caution prevailed over the orator's usual magic...