In Iran, rival regime factions play a high-stakes game of chicken

As the sun set on the fifth day of turmoil over Iran’s disputed election result, the political conflict looked less like a “Tehran spring” challenge to the Islamic regime than a high-stakes game of chicken among its rival factions.
Supporters of Iranian reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi rally in Tehran on June 15, 2009
Supporters of Iranian reformist presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi rally in Tehran on June 15, 2009
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