Trouble in Tehran
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
The News International, Pakistan
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
There is growing speculation that the unthinkable could happen in Iran. In the aftermath of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in a poll which many in Iran think was rigged, the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself seems to be facing more and more heat – not least after the deaths of several people during a rally on June 15 were reported by the Iranian media on June 16. There are those who believe he may even be ousted – in a series of events as startling as those of 1979 when the Shah was toppled in the revolution that converted Iran into an Islamic state – and they point to a message by the sidelined, one-time successor of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, to the youth of the country to "pursue peaceful protest".
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
There is growing speculation that the unthinkable could happen in Iran. In the aftermath of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in a poll which many in Iran think was rigged, the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself seems to be facing more and more heat – not least after the deaths of several people during a rally on June 15 were reported by the Iranian media on June 16. There are those who believe he may even be ousted – in a series of events as startling as those of 1979 when the Shah was toppled in the revolution that converted Iran into an Islamic state – and they point to a message by the sidelined, one-time successor of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, to the youth of the country to "pursue peaceful protest".
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