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The most recent salvo in the cantankerous infighting habitual among the upper echelons of the Islamic Republic is now waged between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the beleaguered president, and the Speaker of the House Ali Larijani - concerning the integration of the two ministries of Mines and Metals and Heavy Industries.  The verbal punches are public, for the whole world to behold. The Speaker of the House is one of three Larijani brothers: One runs the judiciary, one the legislative branch, and the other might be dreaming to become the next president. The Larijani brothers come from a prominent clerical family. The theocracy is corrupted even further by an obscene plutocracy.

The wealthy elite (old money from the landed gentry), rooted in the clerical arrogance of their heritage, dislike the ruffians who are, at times, elected into the highest office of the republic they treat as their personal property and tribal fiefdom. Ahmadinejad, on the other hand, represents a second and third generation of neo-revolutionaries who wish to collect their share of the national booty. Not all fights are ideological in the Islamic Republic. Much of it is a hidden class warfare between old, new, and even newer money. The children of the old and ageing clerical elite have an insatiable penchant for power that is best evident in the Larijani brothers - designing to rule the three branches of a theocracy that feigns democracy.  

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