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Either the reactionaries are rattled by the prospect of the general election scheduled for next year, or they are flaunting their confidence. In Iran’s opaque politics, it is hard to say which.
It is so sad, that more and more news media do not want to admit to the fact that; the Iranian youth are totally ambivalent to the Seyyeds; that the Seyyeds cannot control anything in Iran, and that theatrics with the US along the nuclear fiasco is pointless.
Iran's politics is not opaque to the Iranian people. The people of Iran can see right through the Seyyeds.