(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Elections in Iran will bring a new president to power in another half a year. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not entitled to run again, owing to constitutional restrictions that prohibit a president from serving more than two consecutive terms. But he is making every effort to leave a political base of supporters behind him - and to clear himself of the accusation that he has destroyed the country. His target is the Revolutionary Guard, an enormous military organization which controls about two-thirds of Iran's economy. Iranian economists and politicians decry the tax exemption enjoyed by civilian ventures run by the Revolutionary Guard.
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