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In the last three decades the blame has always been put on the “Great Satan” (West and the US) at every Friday Prayer show. During last week’s prayer, however, the anti-regime crowd shouted “Down with Russia, down with China!” whenever the “official slogan man” prompted the crowd to shout as usual.

Iran's adjustment to the outside world will not necessarily be a difficult, but a multi-dimensional effort in which global community, too, has to adjust itself to the Iranian demands. Or rather to the demands of the Iranians. These demands are clearly expressed in the recent self-steamed popular uprising of June 2009 with free elections as the main slogan.