European partnership for democracy, EPD

Rafsanjani's gambit backfires

Behind the presidential elections was a simmering proxy war between Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the grey cardinal of Iranian politics, former premier Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. The crushing defeat of Mir Hossein Mousavi could mean the end of the tumultuous career of "The Shark", a nickname Rafsanjani acquired as a political predator in the early years of the Iranian Revolution. - M K Bhadrakumar (Jun 15,'09)

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