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In recent months President Ahmadinejad has been trying to curry favor with Iranian middle class voters who disassociate themselves from fundamentalist religious views.  This, in turn, has created a backlash from some hard line clerics such as Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi and Mesbah Yazdi.  As a reaction to this struggle the political elite have started to crack down and enforce religious behavior like never before.  This Ramadan hundreds of thousands of people have been stopped, searched and questioned for eating drinking and listening to loud music.  Iran’s most popular soccer players Ali Karimi was fired from his club because he ate during the fast.  Within one day, 10,000 Iranians joined a group on Facebook to support him proving that the Iranian people are sick and tired of this kind of oppressive behavior.

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