Anyone who tries to account for the creativity of the U.S. needs to consider the forces set in motion when the U.S. decreed that the government could not tell its people what to believe or think.
In the latest edition of Middle Eastern Outlook, Ali Alfoneh argues that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is attempting to consolidate power by weakening and discrediting the clergy.
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