Ahmadinejad's hold on power "slipping badly"


	Ahmadinejad's hold on power "slipping badly"

masbury

6-1-2008 4:08 PM

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masbury says:

More pragmatic speaker elected; likely to find agreement with the West

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6-1-2008 7:53 PM

ratilfar

Make sense, but if bombs start bursting in Tehran then he will stay in power.

6-2-2008 11:46 AM

masbury

Right you are. And we whiff again. How many times have we driven Iraq into conservatism?

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