Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Unity meeting displays disunity

Bad timing or naivete?

Top Leaders Fail to Attend Meeting in Iran’s Parliament
In a sign of the increasing divide among Iranian leaders, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani did not attend a meeting aimed at creating political “unity” on Tuesday, news agencies reported...

Analysts view the failed meeting as illustrating a continuing rift within the country’s ruling establishment...

In another sign of the increasing divide, a senior conservative cleric, Ayatollah Abdollah Javadi Amoli, who had served as one of the Friday Prayer leaders in the religious city of Qum, resigned last week...


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