Control of Iran lies with the Revolutionary Guard, not the masses
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1819190,00.html
Repression, rather than popularity, keeps President Ahmadinejad in
office, says Jamshid Ahmadi
Thursday July 13, 2006
The Guardian
Simon Tisdall is right to point to the "complex forces that were
instrumental" in bringing the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to
power last year, but fails to explain the factors keeping the president
in office (World briefing: US underestimates Ahmadinejad at its peril,
June 27). His analysis overlooks the contradictions in Iranian society
and the widespread unpopularity of this regime. He portrays Ahmadinejad
as an "anti-status-quo candidate" who has built "a third constituency
among the working classes, younger voters and the less well-off". A
closer analysis shows the opposite.
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