The recent revelation of Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates' January memorandum to senior White House officials apparently outlining a range of options for dealing with Iran's persistent drive to achieve nuclear-weapons capability is most timely. On April 19, hard-line Iranian authorities banned the country's two remaining official "opposition" parties - the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Mujaheddin of the Islamic Revolution Organization. Neither of these organizations was a pillar of democracy or threatened Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's "religious" dictatorial control of the country. Nonetheless, the elimination of these two parties shows the paranoid mentality of the Ahmadinejad regime.
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