The dead of Iran are mourned – but the fight goes on

The Independent by Robert Fisk | Jun. 19, 2009 (Opinion)

"President" Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – and the quotation marks are becoming ever more appropriate in Iran today – is in real trouble. There are now three separate official inquiries into his supposed election victory and the violence which followed, while conservative Iranian MPs fought each other with their fists at a private meeting behind the assembly chamber, after Ahmadinejad's members objected to an official's reference to the "dignity" with which the ... Full Story »

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Topics: Iran, Democracy In the Middle East, Middle East, Foreign Policy
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