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Stephen Kinzer: First of all, I’ve gotten to the point where I’m very skeptical of anything I read about Iran in the mainstream press. There are very few reporters in Iran. Therefore, a lot of these stories are written by reporters based outside the country, and they’re written to fulfill certain paradigms that already exist in the minds of reporters and editors. But would I still say the leaders of the Islamic Republic are corrupt? Absolutely. Corruption is a huge problem in Iran, and everybody in Iran is aware of it. But let me repeat to you something that I heard from a guy I met on one of my visits to Iran: 

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