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“... national referendum aimed at trimming the powers of the unelected bodies. Some reformers, such as Akbar Ganji, a former revolutionary guard commander turned dissident, and Abdulkarim Soroush, a leading ‘Muslim intellectual’, went even further, arguing that politics and religion belong to different realms and that the latter should be confined to ...”

“... has seemed to be almost taunting the mullahs and ayatollahs.’ Ahmadinejad’s bugbear is Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the rich former president who was present at the creation and pretty much everything else, and now holds a number of high clerical offices. That Ahmadinejad is erratic in his office work, and that his appearances abroad resemble cabaret ...”