Iran's Conservatives Consolidate Power
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After eight years of a bold but bungled experiment with reform, Iran's government is in the throes of a takeover by conservatives determined to restore the revolution's Islamic purity, according to Iranian politicians and analysts.
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The decision appears to formalize the growing dominance of secular leaders among the Shiite political leadership.
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A resounding Shiite victory in next month's elections will bring Iraq closer to Tehran, forming a "Super Iran" that could change the face of the Middle East, critics say.
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Iranians may have lost faith in the mullahs, but they're not about to overthrow them.
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WASHINGTON -- A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a senior US official.
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Two announcements today appeared intended to enforce Iranâs refusal to back down in the face of stepped-up pressure from the United States.
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More than 180 Iranian MPs sign a letter supporting former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, signalling widening divisions.
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KARAJ, Iran  - Before Iran's 1979 Islamic  revolution, some of the world's finest cars cruised in Tehran  traffic, many of them the playthings of friends and close  associates of the Shah.
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When U.S. and Iranian officials sit down at a regional meeting in Baghdad on Saturday it will be far from the first time they have been in the same room since the United States severed ties with Iran in 1980.
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is elected speaker of the key clerical body that supervises Iran's Supreme Leader.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by most accounts has been the primary architect of IranÂs combative foreign policy.
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TEHRAN, Iran Oct 31, 2004 - Iran&#39;s parliament approved on Sunday the outline of a bill requiring the government to resume uranium enrichment an issue of national pride that is a rare point of agreement between conservatives and reformers in Iranian
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Iran's conservative-dominated parliament votes to give itself a veto over foreign deals struck by reformist President Mohammad Khatami.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, left, leaves a cabinet meeting, accompanied by his Intelligence Minister, Ali Younesi, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004.
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TEHRAN -- A new movement of passive resistance is quietly sweeping young people in Iran, a response both to the reform movement's failure to introduce political and economic change and conservatives' control over who can run for office, according to Iranian student leaders and political analysts.
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BAGHDAD, March 7 -- A small Shiite political party on Wednesday pulled out of the governing Shiite parliamentary bloc that put Iraq's prime minister in power.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have gained greater short-term power with the resignation of Iran's top nuclear negotiator, but the departure appears to have further damaged the president's standing among many conservatives in the Islamic republic.