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Iran Electoral Power Play Shows How Fragile Regime Actually Is

February 4, 2013 Ilan I. Berman U.S. News & World Report

Iran's presidential election may still be some four months away, but the political machinations have already begun. Last week, Iran's Council of Guardians, the powerful governmental oversight body tasked with interpreting the country's constitution, passed a new law imposing additional curbs on the electoral process within the Islamic Republic—and adding a new layer of bureaucracy to its already-convoluted political process.