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  Much of Iran's opposition and the Western media blame Iran's ills--corruption, a weak economy, the risk of a U.S. attack--on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But that analysis grossly understates the influence of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, and inaccurately suggests that Iran's problems will go away when Ahmadinejad does.

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