SocraticGadfly: Why the Khamenei crackdown in Iran?

July 02, 2009

Why the Khamenei crackdown in Iran?

Roger Cohen offers several thoughts, beginning with the one that Mir Mousavi’s late surge in the Iranian presidential election caught Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei off guard.

Meanwhile, Cohen says both sides in the recent presidential race are struggling with the issue of who reaches out first to the U.S., and in what way.

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