"That would not suffice on the surface as a true cardiovascular outcomes study, " says Milani.
The total amount paid to the officials was 1.27 million reais, Mr. Milani said.
"Pfizer's been given a couple of real big gifts by the sponsors of these two trials, " says Milani.
Mr. Milani said he decided to bring charges after interviewing around 20 witnesses, including several former Brookfield employees.
"There were very strong labor strikes -- that's what really broke the back of the old regime, " Milani said.
Milani argued if the U.S. talked with Moscow throughout the Cold War, it should have diplomatic contacts with Tehran.
Others, especially Larijani, were sending a different message, says Abbas Milani head of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University.
Both El-Masri and Milani say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should keep a close eye on the top dose of Zocor.
"I think this regime at this moment is more despotic, " Milani said.
"I think today he is probably the weakest he has ever been, " says Abbas Milani, director of Iran studies at Stanford University.
Today's opposition leaders are "nominal leaders, put there by the people -- but none of them are willing to risk people's lives, " said Milani.
The movement will likely change strategies, possibly shifting from demonstrations to general strikes and other organized efforts, said Abbas Milani, the director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University.
Suggesting the cancer trials were cardiovascular tests is misleading and inappropriate, says Richard Milani , vice chairman of the department of cardiology at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.
Abbas Milani of the Hoover Institution, however, upped the ante and said that the United States and other nations should impose multilateral "crippling sanctions" and not merely "half-baked" measures.
The prosecutor said that Brookfield received approval for an expansion of the mall without completing an improvement to a nearby overpass, which Mr. Milani said was required by municipal regulation.
Mr. MILANI: There was an attempt to give more power, but actually in practice, it has done very little to control and curtail the power and rather erratic behavior of Mr. Ahmadinejad.
"By combining them at a single tablet and offering them at a single price, you obviously create a benefit to the patient, " says Richard Milani head of cardiology at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans.
Stanford University's Abbas Milani believes that so far the moves to shift power to the pragmatists away from President Ahmadinejad have not been successful, especially in connection with the ongoing negotiations over Iran's controversial nuclear program.
Sayyad Fadhil Milani, spiritual leader at the Al-Khoei Centre in Brent, north-west London, is widely regarded as the UK's most senior Shia Islamic scholar and has written about the mut'ah marriage in his book Islamic Family Law.
Mr. ABBAS MILANI (Head, Iran Democracy Project, Stanford University): Larajani has clearly been sending messages that the Iranians are in fact ready to negotiate if there is a reasonable deal from the west that would include the United States.
Mr. ABBAS MILANI (Co-Director, Iran Democracy Project): Some people would argue that they are very consciously, in a very calculated Machiavellian way, fomenting a crisis in order to use that crisis as an opportunity to seize completely the reins of power.
In the midst of this, Ahmadinejad made a speech two weeks ago in which he called for Israel to be wiped off the map, leading to a wave of criticism from Europe and the US. Some analysts say these are missteps, the result of Ahmadinejad's inexperience, but Abbas Milani, co-director of the Iran Democracy Project at Stanford University, says there's more to it than that.
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