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Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1645336,00.html
Polemic and Purges Pile Up Troubles for Iran's Leader
(Guardian-UK) Simon Tisdall and Ewen MacAskill - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has divided the powerful clerical establishment as well as alienating moderates, an informed Iranian source said Thursday. "He is defying everybody. But he is not a power that cannot be challenged." Ahmadinejad's planned extension of state controls of the economy and his peremptory sacking of seven state bank presidents has undermined business confidence.