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| Iran: The Fight Over Economic Power |
| 2009-08-22 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] -- The way some apologists of the Khomeinist regime put it the current power struggle in Iran is between the mass of the poor led by the populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the "rich and privileged" Tehranis whose leader is Mir-Hussein Mousavi. Ahmadinejad himself played that tune during the ceremony in which he took the oath of office for a second four-year term as President of the Islamic Republic. He declared war on "the aristocracy of wealth" and vowed to "uproot the rentier elements". At the other end of the spectrum, some critics of the Khomeinist regime present Ahmadinejad as the leader of a Stalinist group determined to prevent Iran from liberalizing its economy, and praise Mousavi as a pro-market reformer. |
| Posted by:Fred |