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Article: IRAN MOURNS DEATH OF KHOMEINI IN US, HOPES OF MODERATION AFTER A LONG POWER STRUGGLE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 5, 1989
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WASHINGTON - US officials said yesterday that Iran probably
will become more moderate and less anti-Western than it has been
under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, no matter who becomes Khomeini's
ultimate successor.
They said, however, that it could take months, or years, for
competing factions in Tehran to resolve their expected power
struggle. A more moderate leader meant one who was "not as far out
there as Khomeini, which does not mean he will be reasonable by
Western standards," one official said.
The officials said they based their assessment on the
expectation, shared by specialists outside of government, that Ali
Akbar Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament, would ...