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The moment that Khamenei gave Ahmadinejad his full support and gave a green light to the Revolutionary Guards to repress the protesters, Khamenei tied his own fate to that of his president.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Numbering the days of dictators
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With his olive green safari-suit and wispy beard, he had the look of an old-style revolutionary -- a Philippine version of Ho Chi Minh or Fidel Castro, perhaps -- and he had the rhetoric to match.
BBC: The holy warriors of Mindanao
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An obvious difference between modern gangsterism and its pre-revolutionary counterpart is that few gangs today are known by names unlike the famous Green Gang, a powerful force in pre-communist Shanghai, or Chongqing's Robed Brothers, who controlled the city's opium trade and gambling.
ECONOMIST: China's other face