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		<title>The Iranian Clergy&#8217;s Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article was first published in Current Trends in Islamist Ideology vol. 10 on July 12, 2010 “What we see is a military government, not the rule of the Shiite jurist.” &#8211;Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri’s 2009 open letter to Shiite religious authorities in Islamic countries. On June 13, 2010, when Mehdi Karrobi, the reformist candidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green Dreams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tablet Magazine, February 22, 2010 During a campaign speech at the University of Uroomiyeh in northwestern Iran a few months before the June presidential election there, Mir Hossein Moussavi, the main reformist presidential candidate and now opposition leader, was interrupted by angry groups of basiji, the regime’s paramilitary enforcers, carrying pictures of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America and the Iranian Political Reform Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the full text of written testinony in House hearing on February 3. United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia GARY L. ACKERMAN (D-NY), CHAIRMAN America and the Iranian Political Reform Movement: First, Do No Harm February 3, 2010 Testimony of Mehdi Khalaji Senior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://en.mehdikhalaji.com/archives/215</link>
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		<title>Amnesty International action on Mohammad Taghi Khalaji</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty International action on Mohammad Taghi Khalaji PDF file]]></description>
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		<title>The Iranian Republic of Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guardian, January 21, 2010 Iran&#8217;s clerical regime governs by a simple formula: He who is the most frightening wins. &#8220;Victory by terrifying&#8221; is a trope that is present in many of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei&#8217;s speeches. Indeed, it is a reliable guide to his political philosophy. This view was not invented by Khamenei, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Prison of the Shah to the Prison of Khamenei</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, wearing the mantle of Mohammad Taghi Khalaji, addresses the people of Qom upon his return to the city on March 1st, 1979. Khalaji is the young man directly above him, in the white turban       In the very cold winter of 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dilemmas of Pan-Islamic Unity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article is first Published on Friday, November 27, 2009 by Current Trends in Islamist Ideology vol. 9 Throughout the 20th Century, the countries of Iran and Egypt have had a very complex relationship with one another. Among other things, Iran, a leading majority Shiite country that is also ruled by Shiites, and Egypt, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://en.mehdikhalaji.com/archives/171</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Really Running Iran&#8217;s Green Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This piece was first published in Foriegn Policy Website in November 4, 2009 Nearly six months after the demonstrations that followed June&#8217;s disputed presidential election, Iran&#8217;s pro-democracy &#8220;green movement&#8221; is as strong as ever. Rallies took place in downtown Tehran today, having been in the works for months through Twitter, blogs, and word of mouth. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Velvet Revolution Trumps Nuclear Negotiations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mehdi Khalaji and Patrick Clawson While the United States is concentrating on the G-20 summit and the October 1 meeting with the secretary of Iran&#8217;s Supreme National Security Council, Iranian attention has been focused on the potentially destabilizing protests planned for September 18, Quds Day. This critical difference of agenda &#8212; with Iran focused [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://en.mehdikhalaji.com/archives/156</link>
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		<title>Loyalists and Radicals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On August 19, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad submitted his list of cabinet nominees to the Majlis (Iran&#8217;s parliament). The president&#8217;s choice of individuals clearly shows his preference for loyalty over efficiency, as he fired every minister who, while strongly supportive of him on most issues, opposed him recently on his controversial decision to appoint a [...]]]></description>
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