(Washington Post) Editorial - The elimination of political liberals from the Iranian government should make it easier for Western governments to explicitly side with Iran's demoralized but still substantial pro-democracy movement. At the same time, the election as president of religious hard-liner Mahmoud Ahamadinejad has merely made the twin threats facing the Iranian regime - domestic revolution or international isolation - more acute.
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