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The risk for the supreme leader and Mr. Ahmadinejad if the mullahs shift away from them is that the idea that the government carries an Islamic stamp of approval will be undermined.
“The ranks of the government supporters will dwindle and the government claim that endorsing the results is a religious duty will collapse,” said Abbas Milani, author of the book “Eminent Persians” and chairman of Stanford University’s Iranian studies program.
Criticism from the mullahs would also make it nearly impossible to portray the demonstrations as some foreign plot.
“When they start coming out with such strong language, the idea that this is an American phenomenon, that this is a color revolution created by a bunch of liberal, anti-Islamic prostitutes who want to walk around half naked well, that is not going to fly,” Mr. Milani said.