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Iranian Clerics Being Assassinated, Pressure On Iranian Rulers
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Is the pressure in Iran about to boil over and destroy the Islamo-Fascists?
THE assassination of a prominent cleric in an oil-rich Iranian province, coinciding with violent protests in Tehran over the rationing of petrol, has plunged President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into his biggest crisis since he was elected two years ago.
The murder on June 24 of Hesham Saymary in Ahvaz, the centre of Iran’s oil-producing province in the south, was a blow to a regime that is already under pressure because of international condemnation of its nuclear program and the prospect of economic meltdown.The assassination, the third of a senior cleric this year, bore the hallmarks of a well-planned murder.....................
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It is clear why Iran and Venezuela are talking. Both have restive populations, large oil reserves and busted economies. Iran may very well be hitting a tipping point of its own.