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Establishment Factions to Face Off in Iranian Elections
(Washington Post) Thomas Erdbrink - Iran has begun gearing up for elections that will represent a showdown between two establishment factions that just three years ago formed a united front against the opposition Green Movement. In parliamentary elections March 2, supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will face off against an alliance of hard-line clerics, Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders and bazaar merchants who have turned against him. The two sides have lately been engaged in bitter, public disputes, calling each other "tumors," "sorcerers" and "thieves."