Iran: two leadership crises, one revolutionary solution
Some of the best-known candidates for Iran's coming presidential election have been banned from the poll by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. The bans reflect conflicts within the regime. The following is the English translation of the editorial of Militaant No. 58, March 2013. http://marxist.cloudaccess.net/polan/492-two-leadership-crises.html The newspapers and news bulletins are full of clashes between the Khamenei and Ahmadinejad camps. These two main representatives of the Iranian bourgeoisie's warring factions have even used their Nowruz [new year] messages to criticise each...