Brezhnevian Iran
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 1:19AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: Iran's inner and outer circles of influence and power, By Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2007

In the vein of late-Brezhnevian USSR: mullahs pretend to rule and people pretend to obey.

(Thanks: Ray Kimball)

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