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Source: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212836486565361.html
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Triumph
[Wall Street Journal] Bret Stephens - A decade ago, it was former president Rafsanjani who personified the Iranian hard line. He green-lighted terrorist attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina; he refused to revoke the death sentence on novelist Salman Rushdie; a German court fingered him in the assassinations of Iranian-Kurdish dissidents in a Berlin restaurant. Now Rafsanjani is often spoken of as a "pragmatist" and a "moderate" compared to Ahmadinejad.