Beaten back, Iran's opposition looks to reform from within (Time.com)


Written on July 3, 2009 – 9:59 am | by

Top Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, delivers a sermon during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, July 3, 2009. Jannati, who is the head of the Guardian Council, a powerful body in Iran's ruling clerical hierarchy that stands above the elected government, said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over the country's disputed presidential election. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)Time.com - Having lost the battle for the streets, those who lead the opposition to the reelection of President Ahmadinejad are now forced to fight on within the regime where the hardline security establishment is ascendant

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