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Tehran Times: Majlis security committee meets Rafsanjani and losing candidates

TEHRAN - The presiding board of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee has held separate meetings with Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and defeated presidential candidates Mohsen Rezaii, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, and Mahdi Karroubi.

The board members met Karroubi on Thursday, Mousavi on Wednesday morning, and Rafsanjani on Wednesday afternoon, Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Alaeddin Boroujerdi told the ISNA news agency in an interview published on Friday.

by Sassafras on Sat Jun 27th, 2009 at 02:02:16 PM EST
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this may be gone for now, but the resentments will smoulder and next time it may be harder to quell and the protesters may not be content with just a new president.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sat Jun 27th, 2009 at 04:10:42 PM EST
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we just watched burma 2.0.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Jun 27th, 2009 at 06:03:51 PM EST
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... role of China. When a regime cannot rule based on its domestic economy, it has to rule based on external support. As in Burma, or Mobutu's DRC (ex-Zaire).

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Jun 28th, 2009 at 12:33:00 PM EST
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