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		<title>Iran&#8217;s Turbulence Beneath</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/08/irans-turbulence-beneath/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the main stream media slip back into their pre-2009-Iran-presidential-election coma of blissful ignorance, the story is no longer about the courageous Iranian protesters facing their government and revealing to the world how their government torments and terrorizes them. The now almost decade long story about the threat of the Iranian nuclear program has started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WSJ: Iran and Hezbollah&#8217;s Spiritual Leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the '90s, Fadlallah had a falling out with Hezbollah and Iran. The sticking point was the concept of Velyat-e Faqih, or guardianship of the jurist, which held that the supreme religious and political authority for Hezbollah was Iran's Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Pride played an issue for Fadlallah, who was a true scholar—a marja al-taqlid, or source of emulation—for millions of Shiites around the world. Khamenei was a mid-level cleric whose stature rested on his ability to maneuver among allies and adversaries in Tehran.]]></description>
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		<title>Tehran Bureau: Who&#8217;s in Charge?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 19:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Struggle for power builds between clerics, Revolutionary Guards.  An important question that those who follow Iran's political developments keep asking is, Who is the ultimate power in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei and the clerics around him, or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps?]]></description>
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		<title>Regime Seeks to Appoint New “Grand Ayatollahs”</title>
		<link>http://www.irannewsnow.com/2009/11/regime-seeks-to-appoint-new-%e2%80%9cgrand-ayatollahs%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Rooz Online) November 20, 2009 By Ali Farokhi Following the escalation of protests by Iran’s senior ayatollahs against the regime, some members of the Qom Seminary Teachers Association (the most important organization of clerics affiliated with the regime) are planning to present a new list of “grand ayatollahs” under the supervision of Mohammad Yazdi, Ahmad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clerics side with people of Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Mowjcamp.com: Ever since the fraudulent Presidential Elections in Iran in June 2009, the role of Shiite clerics from Qom and even Iraq in standing up to the coup government of Ahmadinejad and its backers has been unprecedented throughout the 30 year history of the Islamic Republic to say the least. Indeed the positions held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insider Opinion: Back to Square One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikVerbrugge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following Q&#038;A is between INN contributor MikVerbrugge (Mehrzad Vafa) and an insider source with which he is in communication. Following this Q&#038;A is a brief analysis by an analyst that has been providing Iran News Now with insightful information ever since the rigged June 12 elections (preferring to remain anonymous). Insider Opinion: Back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The dust of dissent can still choke this regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Siavashi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the surface, “order” has been enforced. But only on the surface. Inside Iran, public anger still burns, flaring up wherever opportunity presents. At the core of the Islamic regime, a struggle has been unleashed that — by stepping off his pedestal into the thick of the fray — the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has lost his once- undisputed power to bring under control. Far from subsiding, dissent is shaking the regime to its roots.]]></description>
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