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Endgame for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran?
(Telegraph-UK) Con Coughlin - Iranian President Ahmadinejad has publicly warned that he will mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution on Thursday by delivering a "telling blow" to the world's leading powers, a message that hardly serves to reassure Western concerns about Iran's future intentions. But before Western governments become too alarmed by Tehran's provocative stance, the regime's recent announcements need to be examined within the context of the country's deepening political turmoil, which many predict will surface again on Thursday. Today's opposition movement has a far broader base than its predecessors, backed not only by students but also by Iran's prosperous middle classes who are as much outraged by Ahmadinejad's woeful mismanagement of the Iranian economy as they are critical of his uncompromising political agenda. It will be the Iranian people, not the West, who will ultimately decide the country's fate.