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US hawks give Iran hardliners ammunition against Rouhani

Photo: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech under portraits of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iran's founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R), on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's death, at his mausoleum in a suburb of Tehran on 3 June, 2014 (AFP).
 

A proposed US law will complicate Rouhani’s job by forcing him to quash criticism at home instead of considering rapprochement abroad