(Wall Street Journal) Jonathan Schanzer - A small but growing group of anti-regime Jordanian activists is openly seeking to end the monarchy. Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood, known as the Islamic Action Front (IAF), may be best poised to stir up popular unrest. The king, seeking to stave off a crisis, met with the IAF earlier this month for the first time in nearly a decade. The IAF seeks to amend Jordan's election laws, which could enable the IAF to regain significant parliamentary power, and possibly even a majority. The IAF could then challenge secular Jordanian laws, the king's economic ties with the U.S., and Jordan's unpopular peace with Israel. The writer is vice president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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