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Looks Who's on the Wrong Side of the Ayatollah Now
Friday, January 19, 2007

The drip, drip, drip of pressure against the president of Iran is growing -- and not from the right in the U.S. From the right in Iran. Feiler Faster has been reporting for some time that internal pressures against the president of Iran are ultimately a greater threat to his security than external pressure, and much more in our interest. Now the NYT reports that the supreme leader in Iran is sending public signals that Ahmadinejad should back off his saber rattling with the West:

Just one month after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear program, two hard-line newspapers, including one owned by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the president to stay out of all matters nuclear.
In the hazy world of Iranian politics, such a public rebuke was seen as a sign that the supreme leader — who has final say on all matters of state — might no longer support the president as the public face of defiance to the West.

Talk. To Iran. Now

Labels: Middle East

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