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Show AA4 TheSalt Lake Tribune OPINION Sunday, May 31, 1999 Barak’s Duty to Wage Peace Could Be Nightmare for Tehran base hran amin Netan allowed the after his electior sued tinians. For example, his peace le govern ment (1) began building settle ments in the West Bank and in Arab East Jerus: alem: (2) resumed confiscating Palestinian land and drove ther from Jerusalem; (3) refused the West Bank; ferred to as technocrats. made struggleis uncertain The reductionof repression in the past two years since Khata _mi’s election has created a great deal of expectation for improveme t. In all likelihood, the ref Khatami will result in aaecedented crisis and upheav Iranianpoli the complete det ditional forces militant reactionary majority of Iranian people detest theentire fundamentalist regime. with Syria soonerorlater. The ability to reach thosegoals with all due speedwill also engender a major crisisin Iran. If the United le to speed up the peace ss, the very These policies isol House than t Israel, v had underm America’s Arab) allies The Barak vi is global economy. tions for the mutual animosity tc litional right hard-liners. are a group reactionary clerics who control much of power in Iran. They ir ho Khamanehi, who has thority in all mat \ Moham In addition, the hard-Jiner have an overwhelming majority of members of two clerical bodies f all legist Irai the ¢ uncil control most le: Minister-elect Barak wly in resuscitating process, the ten various funda in Iran will surface is willing juick] resolve the Pales and Syrian-Leb nese is velite stru Leader theparliament Ali Nouri. He and the like advocates priva and reduction of state The alliance betw ups is tactical and is There are three major factions vying for dominance in Iran. The so-called “traditional rigt 1 Vv Barak's electoral vic existence of the ‘azemzadeh is assis or ofpolitical science at tate College. in jeopardy al. 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Mohtashemi was 1's ambassador to Syria. who gle-handedly organized the anese Hezbollah. In an inter: w, he said that, with tears run n his cheeks, he had tollah Khomeini ee ar against Israel ii 2. i conitinpelnonn the nal left” and “modern right quite tenuous. The former ad ates state ownership of most the internatic first time, th percent “modern r the wrath o} 1 th left and the powel ful “tradition: right.” The outcome of that power If Khatami loses, the fundamentalist regime will be isolated again. If Khatami wins. it would entail a ma the return of a repressive era or the overthrow of thefunda mentalist regime. arak’s victoryheralds a slitic: of the Mid. new erain thepolitics dle East. Iamcertain that we will jan state and peace the liberation of “fundamentalist Mohtashemi, holiest Islamic site and (7) allowed se: Jewish fundamentalists occupy houses in the heart of Palest East Jerusalem less whose mantr P: PalestinefromZionist forces. The defeat oftheseforces would pave the path for democratization of leadership of Hojatolislam the opening ofa tunne receive Iran trary, the most militant are the members of the “traditional left.” In the mid-1980s, under the 3,000 of whom had n charged with a crime clude the Supreme Jihad. r laxation the (5) refused tc lease approximately 5,0¢ tinian political prisoners Hamasand Islamic would quickly be isolated in the regionand in the world Tf election was the United Since May 1997, the “tradi tional left” and “modern right” 1 low the opening of seaport ir Gaza; (4) refused a corridor al ing free passage bet ween Gaza an { ht” is < highly sensitive “traditiona are the i left" andthe t.” The social baseof onal left” is among the f the pre-capitalist ses. The are sons and e ies who had ob inedrmoderneducation, They cate modern capitalist re ms. They are sometimes re- imein Iran to he an process and the position he g apitalist upper ses and those who fear Israeli States. 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