Back story to the uprising: Ahmadinejad's consolidated grip
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The Times has a crucial story by Neil MacFarquhar detailing the extent to which Ahmadinejad, like Stalin before him, has packed the security forces and bureaucracy with his loyalists and to a degree possibly outflanked even Khamenei: During the presidential campaign of 2005, the supreme leader endorsed Mr. Ahmadinejad because the humble son of a blacksmith appeared to be just such an obscure candidate. But he entered the presidency with a coterie of veterans and ideologues shaped by the Iran-Iraq war who were conservative, religious, largely populist and disdainful of the old guard from the 1979 revolution.
Back story to the uprising: Ahmadinejad's consolidated grip
Back story to the uprising: Ahmadinejad's…
Back story to the uprising: Ahmadinejad's consolidated grip
The Times has a crucial story by Neil MacFarquhar detailing the extent to which Ahmadinejad, like Stalin before him, has packed the security forces and bureaucracy with his loyalists and to a degree possibly outflanked even Khamenei: During the presidential campaign of 2005, the supreme leader endorsed Mr. Ahmadinejad because the humble son of a blacksmith appeared to be just such an obscure candidate. But he entered the presidency with a coterie of veterans and ideologues shaped by the Iran-Iraq war who were conservative, religious, largely populist and disdainful of the old guard from the 1979 revolution.