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October 28, 2003       Share:    

Source: http://www.msnbc.com/news/985255.asp

U.S. Doubts Iran Nuclear Deal

(Newsweek) - In Washington, even moderate Bush advisers question whether Iranian ministers and clerics who agreed to the deal to "suspend" a suspected uranium-enrichment program have the power to deliver Tehran's end of the bargain. Some U.S. officials fear the Iranian government has now splintered into three major factions: a reformist or "moderate" faction, personified by the president, Mohammed Khatami; a hard-line faction, led by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme religious leader; and an ultra-hard-line faction of no-name spooks and extremist clerics who secretly pursue radical policies, such as the clandestine support of terrorists, in a way that gives public hard-liners "deniability."

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