At the heart of the widening leadership dispute in Iran is President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's increasing
independence from the system of "guardianship of
the (religious) jurist," on which Iran's Shiite theocracy is based. In essence, Iran's political battle is over two possible paths ahead: a
continuation of the Islamist system of
governance or the emergence of a more secular nation with elected,
nonclerical officials.
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