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In an article in the New York Times, it is emerging that the international pressure on Iran is taking its toll. Read the article here. Some excerpts from the article:

Less than a month after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear program, two hard-line newspapers, including one owned by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the president to stay out of all matters nuclear.
In the hazy world of Iranian politics, such a public rebuke was seen as a sign that the Supreme Leader himself — who has final say on all matters of state —may no longer support the president as the public face of defiance to the West. It is the first sign that the president has lost any degree of confidence from the leader, a potentially damaging reality for a president who has rallied his nation and defined his administration by declaring nuclear power to be Iran’s “inalienable right.”

It could be that this is just internal jockeying in the Islamic Republic for primacy of decision making, but it has been getting reported from time that the people of Iran are looking for economic prosperity; harsh rheoteric can only go so far in getting public opinion on the President’s side. Iran has a very young population, and although younger people get more inflamed by such a shrill campaign, they also get impacted if the economy is not able to generate jobs.
Such is the contradiction that the shrill Iranian President is facing. He is trying to make his name in the power structure of Iran where the power ultimately rests with the theocracy, hoping that this will get him more people power; but at the same time this brings him into conflict with the all powerful Supreme leader. And the reducing price of oil internationally threatens to reduce the economic inflows into Iran.

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