Saturday, May 26, 2012


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The Briefing: Iranian Presidential Politics

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Iran's former two-term president, Mohammad Khatami, recently announced his plans to challenge incumbent President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in a presidential election slated for June. Khatami is regarded by some as reformers' best hope despite obstacles to a substantive challenge to the country's current hard-line administration. In the latest of RFE/RL's occasional briefings, Radio Farda correspondent Mehrdad Mirdamadi talks about Khatami's underdog status, despite Iranian grievances aimed at the mistakes of the past four years.



(with additional Reuters video and agency photos)
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