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		<title>Enduring America: Iran Special: The Escalating Crisis Within</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/07/enduring-america-iran-special-the-escalating-crisis-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enduring America &#124; July 3, 2010 By Mr. Verde Weeks into the Parliament v. President v. Rafsanjani crisis over control of Islamic Azad University, there is no resolution. There have been efforts to play down the immediate conflict, for example, with the denial of Yasr Rafsanjani, the son of Hashemi Rafsanjani, that the university’s office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hardline MP confirms travel ban for Iranian opposition leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hardline MP maintained that the three opposition figures' only aim in leaving the country would be to use international platforms to “keep the seditious movement alive.”
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		<title>Reformist delegates of the opposition in Parliament meet Mousavi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 08:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Khordaad88) &#124; April 6, 2010 Thanks to Khordaad88 for translating the original article. Source: ParlemanNews Date: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 Mir Hossein Mousavi, the prime minister during the holy defense [in the war], viewed the perspective that recognizes only one school of thought and one party and denies the collective wisdom as the main cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafsanjani&#8217;s Long-term Strategy: Empowering Himself Through Helping the Greens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Newest Deal) &#124; March 12, 2010 Masoud Shafaee As the Persian Nowruz New Year fast approaches and Iran&#8217;s post-election crisis enters its ninth month, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani remains as mercurial a figure as ever in Iranian politics. True to his nickname of Kooseh, or &#8220;The Shark,&#8221; Rafsanjani has been paying lip-service to Supreme Leader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rafsanjani stresses people&#8217;s role in government stability</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Radio Zamaaneh) &#124; March 11, 2010 Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council stressed the role of people in governance and maintained that with the growth and spread of media, governments that do not have popular bases can not last long. ILNA reports that speaking in a meeting of members of municipal councils of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musical pulpits: How the choice of Ghods Day&#8217;s prayer leader put the regime in overdrive</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2009/09/musical-pulpits-how-the-choice-of-ghods-days-prayer-leader-put-the-regime-in-overdrive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was written by Twitter activist: homylafayette. We have published this article in full with their permission. Will he or won&#8217;t he? The question has been burning Iranian newswires since Saturday. Will Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani lead Tehran&#8217;s Friday Prayer on Ghods Day, September 18, which the opposition has marked in green in its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dawn of the Age of Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people have not sat idly by, and in the past month a clear distinction has been made between the people on one-side, and the regime on the other.  The world has seen the people's aspirations for freedom, and their bravery in the face of terror and the tyranny of a false theocracy.  The world has also seen the last shred of legitimacy that the government of Iran may have held disappear to reveal what can be safely described as a government structured like a mafia that sees itself as God's representative on earth with the right to butcher its own people.  It can't be more clear than that.

The price has been paid in blood by the Iranian people.  And blood has been spilled across every facet of Iranian society.]]></description>
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