Despite his sympathy for the new US administration and willingness to improve ties with the West, Karroubi is still a loyal member of the Islamic establishment and therefore hardly able, if elected, to implement drastic changes.
Karroubi neither wants suspension of nuclear enrichment - as demanded by the UN - nor is he ready to acknowledge Israel as a sovereign state and drop support for anti-Israeli militias such as Lebanon`s Hezbollah or Palestine`s Hamas.
All the cleric has done so far was to call for diplomacy in the nuclear dispute - what Ahmadinejd never rejected either - and call the president`s anti-Israeli tirades and questioning the Holocaust irrelevant and harmful to Iran`s international image. |
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