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...unknown whether the game was watched by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he is known to be a passionate soccer fan who closely follows the fortunes of Iran's national team. Indeed, at a press conference after he was declared the winner of last week's election, Ahmadinejad dismissed the protests in Iran's streets by comparing the demonstrators to soccer fans upset over a loss. "Some believed they would win, and then they got angry," he said. "It is like the passions after a football match...
...passions of Iranian fans couldn't have been helped much by the results of the game. It ended in a 1-1 draw, putting a serious dent in Iran's qualification hopes...
...Iran wrong with a startling degree of consistency," says Suzanne Maloney, senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy. "We definitely got it wrong this time. I say that for everyone in government and for everyone out of government." (See what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's win means for other world leaders...
...challenges to conventional wisdom, the uprising may be creating new misperceptions. The spotlight on young, English-speaking protesters in Western garb gives a false impression that they are typical of Iranians, says Ken Katzman, a Middle East specialist at the Congressional Research Service. "These symbols of the Iranian reform movement are quite visible, quite vocal and quite well endowed, technologically. But they're not a majority. We keep missing that." Rutgers University professor Hooshang Amirahmadi fears that policymakers will focus more on the election than on the larger struggle of a new class of secular nationalists to break the bonds...
...recent surprising developments reaffirm the humbling nature of Iran analysis. But U.S. experts who are routinely forced to rethink their conclusions are in good company this time. "If Khamenei gets it wrong and doesn't really understand how the Iranian people are likely to see this, then we have some excuse for not always getting it right," says Sick...