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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has created a world-storm, but things aren't all going his way.(The Week)(Brief article)

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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has created a world-storm, but things aren't all going his way. Power, including the conduct of foreign policy, is in any case in the hands of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, known as the Supreme Leader, and himself chosen by a special clerical body. In recent elections to that body, Ahmadinejad and his friends lost ground. Inflation and unemployment are both running around 30 percent. Gasoline rationing is due to begin in March. Demonstrations are met with force, and the prisons are full. But Ahmadinejad wants nuclear power above all else, and seemingly will carry on his war dance regardless of national and international opinion. The ...

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