Word: zibakalam
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...funds--may have given the modest Ahmadinejad's campaign a huge and unfair boost. The former mayor's supporters say otherwise. Says one: "We believe God's hand is higher than everything else and it was his hand that made the people go and vote." Still, says Sadegh Zibakalam, a political analyst at Tehran University, "The people of Iran would be naive to believe that Ahmadinejad was one of them, a simple man with no backing. Ahmadinejad is just the tip of the iceberg. Behind him are the regime's most powerful political and military institutions...
...main battle in the next majlis will be between the pragmatists and the hardliners among the right," said Tehran University political science professor, Sadegh Zibakalam, in a heated debate on American-sponsored Radio Farda. "If the hardliners squash the pragmatists with their isolationist and extremist policies, then I see dark clouds in the sky. But if the pragmatists are able to triumph over the hardliners and push through with their proclaimed plans of economic improvement, then I see light at the end of the tunnel...
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