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Source: http://www.aawsat.net/2013/06/article55306658
President-Elect Rowhani Faces Inflated Expectations
(Asharq al-Awsat-UK) Amir Taheri - Rowhani is a mullah and thus acceptable to clerics although he has never worked as a cleric. Thanks to decades of close association with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), he is acceptable to the military that have emerged as a power behind the scenes in Iran. His position as a security official for years also makes him acceptable to the powerful intelligence services that helped wreck Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's second term. Rowhani is also acceptable to technocrats and managerial elites of the regime. He is a successful businessman and, for years, was chief executive of the IRGC's biggest conglomerate, granting thousands of lucrative contracts to the private sector.