How Iran's Populist Lost His Popularity
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With prices rising and the economy stagnating, Iranians view their President as less a national hero than the latest in a long line of ineffectual bureaucrats
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Iran wants to be a leader in the Islamic world, but it has often had to labor to unify its own people under one national identity.
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Washington's drive toward regime change in Iran is only rallying the country around its radical president.
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Iran closed down two opposition newspapers on Monday, one of which had recently poked fun at hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the way his government has handled nuclear talks with the West.
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Sure he was baited and berated by many in the hall, but the Iranian leader's Columbia appearance was a national media event that gives a major boost to his domestic political game
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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  -- Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani was picked Tuesday to head a key clerical body empowered with choosing or dismissing the country's supreme leader -- a vote seen as a victory for Iran's moderate conservatives, state media reported.
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The rejection of his candidates in municipal elections highlights the domestic weaknesses of Iran's fiery president
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The Fatah leader has popular support, but faces lawlessness and other challenges.
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Whatâs really driving the Iranian presidentâs Western charm offensive?
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Iranians voted on Friday for local councils and a powerful clerical body in elections that will give the first indication of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's popularity since he swept to office in 2005.
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A former Iranian president criticized hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's economic policy on Friday, saying it was a serious issue that may harm the clerical establishment.
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Iran said Sunday it was downgrading its representation at a ministerial meeting of Iraq's neighbors in Jordan this week, apparently to protest accusations by Jordan's monarch that Iran was trying to influence the upcoming Iraqi elections.
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TEHRAN - Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, a relative moderate who struggled fiercely against the uncompromising agenda of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has resigned his high-profile post, government officials announced yesterday.
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In a move likely to split Iran's reformist camp, the ex-parliamentary speaker says he will run for the presidency in June.
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TEHRAN, June 30 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who swept to power promising that every family would benefit from the nation's oil wealth, now faces growing domestic discontent over newly imposed fuel rationing and skyrocketing consumer prices.
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Ayatollah Khomeini's grandson is one of hundreds of candidates reinstated in Iran's parliamentary election.