'Self-inflicted' Iranian crisis can only be solved by a re-election: Expert.Byline: ANI Washington, June 19 (ANI): Iran experts are unsure what compromise can be acceptable to both sides, and any climb down by the Supreme Leader seems hard to digest in Iran's theocratic the·o·crat n. 1. A ruler of a theocracy. 2. A believer in theocracy. the system. Mir Hossein Mousavi and other key moderates are riding a wave of popular anger over how the presidential election was handled. Iran's top clerical leadership is taking steps to defuse six days of crisis and violence, as Iranians challenging the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  This article or section may contain inappropriate or misinterpreted which do not the text.Please help [ improve this article] by checking for inaccuracies. took to the streets again on Thursday, The Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor reports. "At the moment I think the (Islamic system} will survive this, as long as they take decisive measures to address these grievances," says Ali Ansari, director of the Institute for Iranian Studies Iranian Studies or Iranistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the study of the Iranian cultural region (or the Iranian "cultural continent"). It incorporates the study of history, literature, art and culture of Iran (Persia). at St. Andrews University in Scotland. "The problem grows the longer they leave it. This is a serious crisis for them and it's completely self-inflicted. I think they'll have to go for a re-run of the election," says Ansari, author of "Confronting Iran". Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei is due to lead Friday prayers in Tehran at which conservative factions have vowed a large turnout and he is expected to deliver a message of unity. The powerful Guardian Council is to meet on Saturday with all three defeated candidates. The council is examining 646 opposition complaints, and has said it will consider a partial recount. But the 12 clerics on the Council have all but ruled out a full recount, or a re-run of the election, as demanded by defeated top contender Mir Hossein Mousavi and the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have rallied for him on the streets this week. Analysts say there is no easy way out of the crisis, since Ayatollah Khamenei quickly approved Ahmadinejad's victory as a "divine assessment." But the wrath of Iranians behind Mousavi who feel their vote was stolen has only grown in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile . "This is the Islamic Republic's 'Twilight Zone.' People have not been here before," says Anoush Ehteshami, professor of international relations at the University of Durham (body, education) University of Durham - A busy research and teaching community in the historic cathedral city of Durham, UK (population 61000). Its work covers key branches of science and technology and traditional areas of scholarship. . The state is following its instinct to clamp down, control information, behead be·head tr.v. be·head·ed, be·head·ing, be·heads To separate the head from; decapitate. [Middle English biheden, from Old English beh the movement and get their people on the street," he says. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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