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Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/24/is_this_really_the_end_for_ahmadinejad
Is This Really the End for Ahmadinejad?
(Foreign Policy) Jamsheed K. Choksy - The struggle for Iran's future is a three-way fight waged by the different branches of conservatives that control the parliament, the presidency, and the theocracy. The Green Movement may have stalled, but the parliamentary opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has only grown stronger and more assertive over the past year - culminating in a recent push to charge the president with abuses of power warranting impeachment. Parliamentarians are blaming the president and his bureaucrats for the economy's woes. The writer is professor of Iranian and international studies and former director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at Indiana University.