> When Khatami was the President of Iran, all that went wrong in the
> country,
> not just things for which he was actually responsible, was often
> blamed on Khatami, not on Khamenei; today, the blame goes to
> Ahmadinejad, not to Khamenei. Not just the corporate media but also
> liberals have tended to leave Khamenei off the hook. Strange.
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I don't remember Western liberals and leftists criticizing Khatami -
certainly not nearly to the extent they criticize Ahmadinejad. The latter is
criticized for his approach to such things as student dissent, the status of
women and gays, and the Holocaust. What kind of criticism was directed at
Khatami, who was viewed as one of their own by the urban-based Iranians,
other than that he was moving too slowly on liberal reform - which they
traced to conservative pressure from Khamenei and the Guardian Council?