Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong?
is asked by Reza Aslan (cool name for Narnia fans) in Is it possible that Iran’s blustering president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long thought to be a leading force behind some of Iran’s most hard-line and repressive policies, is actually a reformer whose attempts to liberalize, secularize, and even “Persianize” Iran have been repeatedly stymied by the country’s more conservative factions? In fact, the article makes a serious point, that the WikiLeaks leaks suggest that Ahmadinejad may be less of a tub-thumping fundamentalist in private, and that ...
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