In Iran, Even Some On Right Warning Against Extremes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032600755_pf.html
Conservative Faction Fears Radicalism
By Karl Vick
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, March 27, 2006; A11
TEHRAN -- Nine months after the election of hard-liner Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad as president, Iranian politics has shifted so sharply to
the right that some traditional conservatives are warning of the
dangers of radicalism.
With reformists sidelined and Ahmadinejad setting a strident new tone
on the global stage, figures from the extreme right of Iran's political
spectrum are defining the terms of political debate in the country. In
remarks that set off a domestic firestorm, a senior cleric close to the
new president suggested in January that Iranian voters were largely
irrelevant because the government requires only the approval of God.
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