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as this paper goes to press, Iran has just come through its
longanticipated presidential election. despite predictions of a
victory for a well-known clerical "moderate," former president and
expediency council head akhbar hashemi-rafsanjani, the winner was
the hard-line conservative mayor of tehran, Mahmoud ahmadinejad, a
relative unknown. the terms hard-liner and conservative are used
virtually interchangeably by many inside and outside Iran; they are
relative terms, since there are no political parties in Iran, with
their meaning dependent on context and issue. the election
consolidated control of all branches of the Iranian
government-legislative, executive, and judicial-in conservative
hands. It also brought to the presidency for the first time in the
republic's history a non-cleric who ran a populist-style campaign
attacking corruption and non-Islamic practices that had crept into
government since the death of the ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
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