Ali Akbar Velayati, the former foreign minister of Iran and one of several candidates in this week’s presidential election there, recently released a campaign video that might have been seen as a touch too personal even in the U.S. political context, where personality and performances rule all. The video showed him sitting in a darkened theater, weeping over archival footage announcing founding leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 death.
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