(Scotsman-UK) Mike Theodoulou - Iran's supreme leader Thursday publicly backed the defiant stand of the country's hardline president on Tehran's nuclear program. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Tehran's ultimate arbiter of power, told Iranian officials not to yield to Western pressure as he prepared Iranians for a possibly "painful" showdown with the U.S.
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