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Iran candidates challenge taboos as campaign heats up

Wed Jun 1,12:01 PM ET

TEHRAN (AFP) - Two high-profile candidates for
Iran's presidency raised the stakes in their campaigns, both evoking the taboo topic of relations with the United States and one challenging the status of the Islamic republic's supreme leader. (!!)

"In particular, we have to define the prerogatives of unelected institutions, for example article 110 of the constitution,......Article 110 of Iran's constitution, put in place after the 1979 Islamic revolution, spells out the powers of the country's supreme leader -- currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Reza Khatami, brother of outgoing President Mohammad Khatami, went on to cross another one of the regime's so-called "red lines": relations with the United States.

"We have to break the taboo of relations with the United States so that everyone can give their opinion," he said in a presentation of Moin's policies.
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Campaign frontrunner Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was also breaking fresh ground on the topic -- a sign that the big question facing the Iran's foreign policy has emerged as a major election issue.

"If they make a positive sign, I am one of those who believe that we need to sort out this problem," Rafsanjani said of the Americans.
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Ziemlich offene Worte derzeit...ist nur die Frage, wie Khamenei das alles so gefällt ?!