Boys get discovered as winter melts
Flowers competing for the sun
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ANALYSIS
Islamic Republic will not go down as easily as Ben Ali's Tunisia, or Mubarak's Egypt
by Hamid Dabashi
The most recent salvo in the cantankerous infighting habitual among the upper echelons of the Islamic Republic is now waged between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the beleaguered president, and the Speaker of the House Ali Larijani - concerning the integration of the two ministries of Mines and Metals and Heavy Industries. The verbal punches are public, for the whole world to behold. The Speaker of the House is one of three Larijani brothers: One runs the judiciary, one the legislative branch, and the other might be dreaming to become the next president
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PHENOMENON
کمتر کسی میتوانست پیشبینی کند که در فاصله دو سال او در برابر خامنهای بایستد
برای یک موضعگیری مسئولانه و حساب شده باید پدیده احمدینژاد را بهتر شناخت و شکاف بیسابقهای را که حرکت او در ساختار جمهوری اسلامی وارد کرده ارزیابی کرد. احمدینژاد نشان داده است که، به رغم فرهنگ خرافی و اندیشههای امام زمانیش، سیاستمدار عامهگرا (پوپولیست) ماهری است. سیاست اتمی و ضد غربی او حتا برخی از ملیگرایان (افراطی) را به تحسین واداشته است، و سخنرانیهای عوامفریبانه او هنوز میتواند عده زیادی از مردم را به خود جلب کند
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MOSSADEQ
1953 coup overthrew burgeoning Iranian democracy
by Mitchell Freddura
The long term effect of the removal of Mossadeq was the Islamic Revolution of 1979. While the American public viewed the revolution as a spontaneous and unjustified act of defiance, for the people of Iran it was anything but. The revolution was the culmination of the previous twenty-five years of complete social and political repression of the Iranian people under the Shah. With the money and complicit approval of the United States, Mohammad Reza Shah sharply centralized political power beneath him
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