Shaul Mofaz, an Israeli parliamentarian and former army chief of staff, says a radical axis of Iran,Syria, Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza are trying to destabilize the Middle East.

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Argentina's least unpopular politician is now Elisa Carrio, a former Radical turned populist firebrand.

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Another reformer who has suffered from the courage of his (new) convictions is Ebrahim Asqarzadeh, a former radical who helped to organise the attack on the American embassy in Tehran 20 years ago.

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He has repeatedly stressed that, his 4% solution notwithstanding, he plans no radical departures from the former administration's policies.

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